S. Mis. 53. 



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C. — Table exhibiting the receipts by exchange in 1852, and 



INCLUDING THOSE OF PUEVIOUS YEARS. 



It will be seen from the above table that the total receipts for 1S52 

 have been three times as great as during all previous years. The 

 number of extended series of Transactions, and other desirable works, 

 has been in unusual proportion. Among these I can only mention a 

 few: as 30 volumes, 8vo., of Transactions and Reports from the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Stockholm ; 21 volumes, 4to., of Transactions of the 

 Danish Society of Sciences, Copenhagen; 23 volumes, Svo., of Memoirs 

 of the Academic Nationale of Mctz ; 26 volumes, Svo., of the Trans- 

 actions of the Society of Agriculture, &c., of Lyons; 17 volumes Svo., 

 and 1 foHo, of Gay's History of Chili, from the Chilian government ; 

 25 volumes, 4to., of Philological works, published by the East India 

 Company ; 29 volumes, 4to., of Transactions of the Batavian Society 

 of Experimental Philosophy ; 20 volumes, 4to., of Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburg ; 1,574 charts from the London Admiralty; 

 22 quarto and 25 octavo volumes of Transactions of the Utrecht 

 Society of Arts and Sciences ; 31 volumes Svo., and many folio, be- 

 longing to the Voyages of the Astrolabe et Zelee, Venus, Thetis et 

 Esperance, &c., presented by the Ministere de la Marine of France ; 

 16 volumes, 4to., from the Royal College of Surgeons, of London ; 54 

 volumes, 4to., of Manuscripts from J. (). Halliwell, of London; 14 

 volumes, 4to., from the Academy of Sciences, Bologna ; with very many 

 others. Almost every parcel from a foreign society contains donations 

 from prominent members, of works, many of them often very costly. 

 In fact, the books received in 1852 could scarcely have been purchased 

 for less than four or five thousand d(jllars. 



The following table exhibits the number of parcels, many of them 

 including several volumes, which have been received in 1852 for other 

 institutions in the United States. 



D. — Table of packages received in 1852 for other institutions. 



Boston. — American Academy of Arts and Sciences 24 



Natural History Society 10 



