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DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



Manitoba — Eeport of Department of Agriculture. 



McCurdy, Charles W. — Report of Sand Beach schools. 



Newcoinb, Simon— Astronomical papers, 1 volume. 



Pond, Bertie — Ten reports State charities. 



Potts, William— Sixty pamphlets ou civil service. 



Ritch, G. AV.— Illustrated New Mexico, 1883. 



Sanborn, J. W. — Annual report State Board of Agriculture, Missouri. 



Spaight, A. W. — Resources, soil and climate of Texas. 



Thompson, Rev. E. — Proceedings of 51st annual convention Diocese of Michi- 

 gan, 1885. 



Tracy, Prof. S. M. — Catalogue phaenogamous and cyptogamous plants of 

 Missouri. 



Tryon, J. H. — Practical treatise on grape culture. 



United States — Astronomical papers, volume 3, part 4, Navy Department. 



United States — Consular reports, six. State Department. 



United States — Currency, report comptroller. Treasury Department. 

 ■ United States — Forestry, proceedings of American Congress. 



United States — Official Army Register, War Department. 



United States— Otficial Gazette, Patent Office. 



United States— Statistical Abstract of the United States, Treasury Depart- 

 ment 



Wellcome, Mrs. M. D. — Talks about flowers. 



Wright, Carroll D. — Sixty-seven pamphlets on civil service. 



The system of foreign exchanges is bringing to us a fine collection of excep- 

 tionally well illustrated articles upon scientific subjects, many of them directly 

 in our lines of study ; seventy reports were sent abroad to schools of agricult- 

 ure and experimental stations, and to a few individuals who asked to receive 

 them in exchange for other matter. 



The reading-room has had an increased number of periodicals, as shown hj 

 the succeeding list : 



Foreign, hy subscription. 



Agricultural Gazette, 



Anglia, 



Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 



Art Journal, 



Chemical News, 



Engineering, 



Englische Studiea, 



Garden, 



Gardener's Chronicle, 



Journal of Anatomy, 



". '" Chemical Society, 



Journal of Forestry, 



" " Royal Agr'l Society, 

 Knowledge, 

 Nature, 



North British Agriculturist, 

 Observatory, The, 

 Spectator, 



Sotheran's price current of books. 

 Times, Weekly, London, 

 Veterinarian, 

 Veterinary Journal. 



