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to the foreign powers. It is to be hoped that some one with influence 
enough to overcome the official inertia will have the missing ninety 
and nine brought forth from their hiding, and sent to their destina- 
tions. 
As to Vol. XIX, the other one missing in the Massachusetts set, 
all the copies I have seen are of the public issue, and bear different 
publishers names, though all printed by C. Sherman. It is not likely 
that Sherman printed copies for the author but not for the government; 
probably the 100 copies of this volume might be unearthed in Washing- 
ton by one who had time and energy for the work.! 
The insufficient supply of these memoirs has been reduced below 
the original amount by fires, the loss in this way having been unusually 
heavy. I have already referred to the fire at Washington. There 
were losses in two fires at Philadelphia near that time, so that the 
official edition of most of the memoirs was reduced to about 70. 
Dana’s volume on zoophytes was an exceptional sufferer; the original 
colored drawings were lost in one of the Philadelphia fires; most of 
the type specimens in the Chicago fire; and at two times, a fire at 
New Haven destroyed some of his own extra copies, the second fire 
taking all that was left. In ascertaining whether any other states 
had sets like that of Massachusetts, I have written to the State 
Librarians of Rhode Island, New York and Minnesota; of these the 
last two report that they had sets, but that they had been destroyed 
in conflagrations. It is not likely that the proportion is the same 
among the other states; but one cannot tell what a thorough round-up 
might show. 
MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS. 
1 In this connection see Cong. Doc. Vo l. 994, No. 391, Report of the Committee on 
the Library on progress of publication. Under date of March 2, 1859, they say of 
Vol. XIX, ms. ready; maps made. The Boston Public Library copy has the signa- 
ture of Theodore Parker with the date March 2, 1854. Other copies have title pages 
with dates varying from 1854 to 1863. 
