78 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Henry S. Evans. 



Eif^hth Keport of Montreal Horticultural Society. 



J. B. Tower. 



Practice in Europe with heavy Armstrong, Woolwich, and Krnpp Guns. 



Wm. U. Scott. 



Annual Eeport of Ohio University. 



Pres. C. L. IngersoU. 



Fourth Annual Register of Colorado Agricultural College. 



Kev. Thos. Humes. 



Keport of the 76th year of University of Tennessee and State Agricultural 

 ^College. 



J. L. Cravens. 



Catalogue Arkansas Industrial University. 



P. T. Quinn. 



» 

 Fifth Annual Report New Jersey Board of Agriculture. 



War Department. 



Fortifications of To-l)ay. 



Smithsonian Institute. 



Twenty-five Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, and 

 ■other foreign pamphlets on various subjects. 



War Department. 



The motions of Fluids and Solids on the Earth's Surface. 



Meteorological and Physical Observations on the East Coast of British 

 America. 



Popular Essays on the Movements of the Atmosphere. 



Geograjihical Distribution of Rainfall in the United States. 



We have also received Cornell University reports. University of Virginia 

 and Iowa reports and numerous others, to all of which we have returned the 

 catalogue of this institution togetlier with reports of the Board of Agriculture. 



An effort is being made to secure full sets of Agricultural reports from each 

 State by exchange, our reports having been sent to all States known to issue 

 annual reports. 



The library is kept open daily; on school days it is open eight hours, from 

 S to 12 A. M. and from 4 to 8 P. M. ; on Saturdays it is open from 9 to 12 A. 

 M. and from 4 to 6 P. M. ; on Sundays it is open from 10 to 12 A. M. only. 



Every effort is made to make the contents of the library of the greatest 

 assistance to each student; cataloguing has already been done to some extent 

 and will be continued as time permits; the warmth, ventilation, and cleanli- 

 ness of the rooms are carefully looked after, and a commendable degree of 

 quiet is maintained. The usefulness of the library would be still farther pro- 

 moted by covering the floors with some material which would deaden sound 

 while it could, at the same time, be speedily and thoroughly cleansed ; the 

 amount of sand and dust which is daily brought in, in spite of careful use of 

 mats, renders the use of matting upon the floors very nndesirable and the 



