1862.] 9 



Letters were read from Mr. B. Whiting, senior officer, and 

 Mr. Hubbard, Librarian of the Washington Observatory, 

 dated January 21, 1862, acknowledging the receipt of publi- 

 cations. 



A letter was received from M. Paul Bossange, dated New 

 York, January 30, 1862, respecting the Annales de Chimie 

 et de Physique. 



Donations for the Library were announced from the Li- 

 brary Company of Cape Town, South Africa ; the Bureau of 

 Engineers at Paris ; the R. Astronomical Society, the Ameri- 

 can Academy, American Antiquarian Society, and Boston 

 Society of Natural History ; Prof. H. A. Newton, of Yale 

 College ; the Publishers of Silliman's Journal ; M. Carey 

 Lea, of Philadelphia, and the Academy of Natural Sciences ; 

 the Adjutant General of the United States, and Col. Long, of 

 the Bureau of Topographical Engineers at Washington ; and 

 the American Colonization Society. 



Pending nominations Nos. 446, 447 were read. 



The Committee on the Library submitted the accompany- 

 ing special report of the Librarian, and recommended its sug- 

 gestions to the favorable consideration of the Society. 



The Librarian reports : That there have been added to the 

 Library by donation in the year 1861, 317 books and pamph- 

 lets, and Proceedings of Corresponding Societies. The Lon- 

 don, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, and the 

 Astronomische Nachrichten have been regularly received on 

 subscription. 



A large number of pamphlets, periodicals, and publications 

 of societies remain unbound upon the shelves ; fifty volumes 

 of pamphlets have been disposed ready for binding, and 150 

 more volumes will be so disposed during the printing of the Cata- 

 logue The printing of the Catalogue has proceeded 



slowly, but steadily. . . . .' Two bound copies of the part 

 already printed, are herewith presented, comprising Classes 

 I and II, to page 212 ; exhibiting the books and pamphlets of a 

 general nature, such as Encyclopedias, Scientific Magazines, 

 the Publications of Societies, and the Catalogues of Libraries ; 

 together with books and pamphlets on the Mathematical 



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