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Painpblets: 



Octavo or less 1, 7G4 



Quarto or larger 302 



2, 0G6 



Maps and charts 179 



Total receipts 5, 182 



The following are some of the larger donations received in 1870 : 



From the ministry of the interior, Christiania, Norway, "Den Norske 

 Lods;",2 volumes, octavo, and 71 charts. 



From the Imperial Botanical Garden, St. Petersburg, " Sertum 

 Petropolitarum seu icones et descriptiones plantarum quce in Horto 

 Botanico Imperiali Petropolitano floruerent." Parts I and II, 1846 ; 

 III and IV, 1869. Folio. 



From His Majesty the King of Prussia, " Danzig und seine Bauwerke 

 in malerischen Origiual-Radirungeu mit geometrischen details und 

 text, Von Johann Carl Schultzj '' volumes I-III, oblong folio. 



From Dr. Koch, Berlin, 127 pamphlets, University Theses. 



From the Royal Public Library, Dresden, " Eiedel's Codex Diplo- 

 maticus Braudenburgeusis;" 41 volumes, quarto. 



From the Agricultural Association, Potsdam, " Zeitschrift ; " volumes 

 III-XVIII, octavo. " Monatschrift," volumes XIX-XXIII, octavo; 

 and " Amtliches Vereiusblatt," 1869, quarto. 



From the Austrian government, " Reich s-Gesetz-Blatt fiir das Kaiser 

 thuiv Oesterreich ; "' 1849-1869, quarto, 21 volumes. 



From the Musee de Douai, " Dictionnaire des Sciences M(§dicales;" 

 volumes I-LX, quarto. 



From the minister of public instruction, Florence, 11 volumes " On 

 Education, Public and Private." 



From the minister of public works, Florence, 25 volumes and 16 

 pamphlets. Hydraulics, Navigation, and Engineering, &c. 



From the meteorological ofQce, London, " Daily Weather Reports," 

 July 1, 1868, to June 30, 1870, (4 volumes and 6 parts,) folio; and 

 " Quarterly Weather Report," part I. 



From William Blackmore, esq., Liverpool, " Hoare's Ancient History 

 of Wiltshire," volumes I and II, folio, beautifully illustrated with 

 maps and plates. ''The People of India: A series of photographic 

 illustrations, with descriptive letter-press ; " volumes I-IV, 1868, quarto. 

 " Tree and Serpent Worship, or Illustrations of Mythology and Art in 

 India in the First and Fourth Centuries after Christ;" quarto; and 

 various other works. 



From the State of Illinois, State documents, 14 volumes. 



The incorporation of the library of the Institution with that of Con- 

 gress continues to be productive of the results which were anticipated 

 from this union. The extensive series of transactions of learned 



