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We notice that the Institute is honorably referred to 

 by the Commissioners, as furnishing material aid from 

 its library. This instance, in which our collection has 

 been rendered useful, should remind us of the importance 

 of completing all our series of public documents. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



Among the recent additions to tiie library justice com- 

 pels us to mention two works, both prepared by officers 

 of the Institute and issued from the Institute Press. The 

 one a vakiable contribution to civil history, the other to 

 natural history. 



Mr. Matthew A. Stickney has published in a finely 

 printed octavo volume of 526 pages, with illustrations, a 

 very interesting and full Geiiealogical Memoir of the 

 Stickney Family, or a memoir of the descendants of 

 William and Elizabeth Stickney from 1637 to 1869, 

 with an appendix which contains brief notices of a few of 

 the allied families. 



This is a beautiful monument, raised with much care 

 and labor to the memory of the Stickney Family — a 

 family that has enrolled, during successive generations, 

 among its members, many honored names, to all of whom 

 befitting tributes, sedulously prepared, are inserted. 



The author, with an ardor which indifference on the 

 part of others could not repress, has devoted much time 

 during the lapse of many years, in carefully examining 

 the various parish, church, town, county and other rec- 

 ords, conducting a very extensive correspondence with 

 members of different branches of the family and others 

 scattered far and wide in almost every section of the 

 Union and the adjoining Provinces, and, indeed, omitting 



