LIBRARIES. 



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Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A.: — 



History of the First Half-Century of the Smithsonian Institute, 

 1846-1896, ed. by G. B. Goode; Annual Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 1894-5 j Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections ; and 

 7 other works. 



United States Government : • — 



United States Eleventh Census (4 vols.) ; United States Department 

 of Agriculture : Bulletins, Circulars, Insect Life (148 parts) ; Annual 

 Reports of the Commissioner of Education, 1895-6 and 1896-7 ; and 

 27 other works. 



University Correspondence College, London : — 



Tutorial Latin Dictionary, by F. G. Plaistowe; General Elementary 

 Science, ed. by W. Briggs j University Correspondent, vol. 7 ; 

 A Middle Algebra, by W. Briggs and G. H. Bryan; and 24 other 

 works. 



Other Books and Pamphlets. Reports. &c, have been received from the 

 following' donors, for which the Committee again beg to express their 

 grateful acknowledgments : — 



Leonard D. Abbott ; Aberdeen University ; Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, U.S.A.; Akroyd Museum of Art, Industries, &c. , Halifax; 

 H. C. L. Anderson, m. a. (Librarian, Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales); Abel 

 Andrew ; Arliss Andrews ; Architects' Benevolent Society ; Argentine Republic 

 Consul, Liverpool (F. P. Hansen) ; Director General of Telegraphs, Argentine 

 Republic (Dr. C. Carles) ; Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Herbert 

 Batsford ; Berlin Municipal Corporation ; Birkenhead Literary and Scientific 

 Society; Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead (R. Sydney Marsden, d.sc, m.b. ); 

 Blackburn Chamber of Commerce ; Board of Trade, London ; H. Percy Boulnois, 

 c.E. ; J. L. Bowes; Edgar Brinsmead ; British and Foreign Bible Society; 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science ; Agent-General for British 

 Columbia (F. G. Vernon); British Fire Prevention Committee; Rev. C. Musgrave 

 Brown, m.a. ; T. B. Browne; National Museum, Buenos Aires; Burma Govern- 

 ment ; Cambridge University ; Canadian Government ; Canadian Government 

 Agency, Liverpool (A. F. Jury) ; Andrew Carnegie; .Messrs. Champness & Co. : 

 Cheshire Lines Committee j Medical Officer of Health for the County Palatine of 

 Chester (Francis Vacher, m.d.) ; Chester Society of Natural Science and 

 Literature ; Chicago Board of Trade, U.S.A. ; Church Missionary Society for 

 Africa and the East ; Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, U.S.A. ; William 

 Cleland ; Cobden Club ; Rev. Charles C. Coe ; College of Preceptors, London ; 

 Messrs. Collingwood Bros. ; Lady Cook ; Co-operative Union, Manchester : 

 Cornell University,' Ithaca. New York, U.S.A. ; Peter Cowell, f.k.h.s. 

 (Librarian, Free Public Libraries, Liverpool): Edward S. Craston, 



