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Histoire Naturelle, in three volumes, folio ; Hardwicke's Indian 

 Zoology, in two volumes, folio ; Poiteau's Pomologie Francaise, 

 in four volumes, folio ; Lambert's Genus Pinus, in one volume 

 folio, and one volume octavo ; Gray's Genera of Birds, in three 

 volumes, royal quarto." 



Mr. Dillaway accompanied the announcement of this 

 bequest with the following remarks : — 



" The Society may well congratulate themselves on this timely 

 donation. For many years we have been in want of these very 

 works, but from their great cost, probably not less than $2,000, 

 have been unable to obtain them. They constitute the most 

 valuable donation ever made to the library, and give a com- 

 pleteness to the ornithological department, unsurpassed in any 

 collection in this country, excepting perhaps that of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. 



"This is not the first time we have been indebted to the 

 liberality of Mr. Brown. On many occasions his purse and his 

 influence have been freely offered in aid of our efforts for the 

 promotion of Natural Science. 



" In the list of our patrons, numbering eighty of the most 

 liberal and public-spirited citizens of Boston, his name stands 

 now among the first. Indeed, with the exception of the bequest 

 of Ambrose S. Courtis, from whose estate we realized $10,000 — 

 and the contribution of the late Amos Lawrence, who presented 

 $5,000 towards the purchase of the building we occupy, the 

 donation of Mr. Brown is one of the largest ever received. 



"It is not for me to write his eulogy — it has already been 

 written by other and abler hands — but as my acquaintance with 

 him has been a long one, commencing at a time when his whole 

 property could not have purchased one of the volumes he has 

 bequeathed to us — when ^industry, integrity, and a generous 

 heart were all his capital, and reaching to a period when he was 

 able and willing to give his thousands to the promotion of liter- 

 ary, scientific, and charitable objects, I may be permitted to 

 express a belief that Boston has lost by his death a citizen of 

 whom she had good reason to be proud, and our Society a valued 

 friend, whose memory we shall ever hold in honor." 



