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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAX. 

 To the President: 



The report here presented covers the year from October 1, 1882, to October 

 ], 1883, the first nine months of which time the library was in charge of 

 Prof. MacEwan who, in the report of 18S1-82, fully described the new build- 

 ing and gave an outline of the work done in the library. 



No change was made in the conduct of the library until the first of July, 

 1883, when the management was given into the hands of the newly-appointed 

 librarian. She retained, until his graduation, in August, Mr. L. A. Buell, as 

 assistant librarian. 



According to the last report there were in the library "G,135 volumes, valued 

 at a little more than $15,000, and 800 pamphlets and unbound volumes worth, 

 perhaps, 1100 (exclusive of catalogues of schools, museums, publications, 

 etc)." 



There have been added during the year past, by purchase, 78 volumes at a 

 cost of $193.54:; by gift and exchange 66 volumes valued at $75.00; by 

 pamphlets 55, at a valuation of $5.00, making a total valuation of $15,273.54, 

 irrespective of books bound or now at the bindery. The additions by binding 

 are 160 volumes; the expense of binding $227.00; the library therefore num- 

 bers now, aside from duplicate reports and public documents, 6,429 volumes and 

 855 pamphlets, the whole valued at more than $15,500. There are also sixty 

 partial volumes completed in December next, which will then be bound for 

 preservation and use. 



The following periodicals were received in the library this year, having been 

 subscribed for and bound : 



FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 



Agricultural Gazette. 



Annals de Chemee et de Physique. 



Blackwood's Magazine. 



British Quarterly. 



Westminster Review (reprint). 



Contemporary Review. (Reprint.) 



Chemical News. 



Canadian Entomologist. 



Edinburgh Review. (Reprint.) 



Engineering. 



Fortnightly Review. (Reprint.) 



Gardener's Monthly. 



Garden. 



Gardener's Chronicle. 



Journal of the Chemical Society. 



Journal of Science. 



Knowledge. 



London Quarterly Review (reprint). 



London Times, weekly edition. 



London Veterinarian. 



London Journal of Anatomy and 



Physiology. 

 Nineteenth Century (reprint). 

 Nature. 



North British Agriculturist. 

 Spectator. 

 Westminster Review. (Reprint.) 



.AMERICAN PERIODICALS. 



American Architect and Building News. 



American Agriculturist. 



American Poultry Journal. 



American Bee Journal. 



American Bookseller. 



Atlantic Monthly. 



American Naturalist. 



American Monthly Microscopical 



Journal. 

 American Banker's Magazine. 

 American Chemical Journal. 

 Breeder's Gazette. 

 Century. 

 Critic. 



