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reports and other documents of the state and general 

 governments. 



The committee would recommend that the copies of 

 Transactions of the Institute now in sheets be sent to some 

 proper office to be gathered up and sewed, with paper 

 covers, and that all that prove imperfect be sold for paper 

 stock. They also recommend that authority be given 

 carefully to examine the duplicate documents that remain 

 unbound in the library of the Institute, and that those 

 which are deemed to be not available for exchanges be 

 also sold. 



It is suggested that an inquiry made among the scientific 

 and literary societies in correspondence with ours, might 

 result in a mutually advantageous exchange of many of the 

 duplicate volumes of reports above mentioned. 



It is also recommended that measures be taken for ar- 

 ranging and binding the pamphlets and publications re- 

 ceived from other societies as donations. If the expense 

 of binding be considered too great for the present funds of 

 the Institute, they should at least be carefully gathered, 

 collated and tied in packages until a convenient time for 

 binding. 



The recommendation of the committee was adopted. 



A resolution was offered that a committee be appointed 

 by the chair to examine the duplicate documents in the 

 library of the Institute, and to prepare and issue a circular 

 to societies in correspondence, with the view of effecting 

 exchanges of such as may be available. This committee 

 shall have power, and is hereby directed, to dispose of im- 

 perfect sets of sheets and other duplicate matter deemed 

 unavailable, and to pay the proceeds of such sales into the 

 hands of the treasurer. 



Mr. Burnett then read an elaborate paper on the Study 

 of Language. The object of this paper was to show the 

 advantages to be derived from a thorough acquaintance 



