18G8.] 



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vanced price of labor and material, Mr, Binney was obliged 

 to ask for a double apiDropriation ; the request has just been 

 granted, and, at the same time, a further distribution of the 

 edition determined on, by which each member of the pres- 

 ent legislature and every public library in the Common- 

 wealth will be pi'ovided with a copy, and the remainder-^ 

 not fifty copies at the most — ])laced for distribution in the 

 hands of the Trustees of the State Library. Anxious that a 

 work so imj^ortant, and so creditable to the State should be 

 widely circulated among scientific institutions, the Council of 

 the Society petitioned for an extension of the edition and a 

 supply of five hundred copies to be sent abroad through its 

 agency. The request was acknowledged to be reasonable 

 and more important to the State than to the Society, but was 

 denied upon the ground of its expense (about 11500). The 

 meagre edition provided for, will thus be almost exclusively 

 distributed among those who will value it Httle for its scien- 

 tific merits ; and, since neither the text is to be stereotyjied 

 nor the plates preserved, it is improbable that another edi- 

 tion will ever be printed. It will be known in Europe, only 

 by a few copies in the large libraries, and before many years 

 we shall hear vmjust complaints of the negligence of Eu- 

 ropean authors to give due credit to American writers. 



The following table gives a summary of the additions to 

 the Library by volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets and 

 maps or charts. 



Books presented by individuals . . 

 " " " Publishing Com. 



" purchased 



" deposited in Binney library . 

 " " by the Republican In- 

 stitution 



" received in exchange . . . 

 Total . 



Octavo. 



vis pts ph 



Quarto. 



s ptSjph 



33 



3 13 

 1 

 6 



24 



Folio. 



vis pts pli 



19 



7S| 1 



Maps 

 and 



Ch'ts 



To'I 



243 

 21 



295 

 35 



20 

 2 1083 



lO! 11697 



