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splendid market for our staple produce, experience having proved that 

 wool, when readily procurable, always to a great extent superseded 

 cotton for clothing purposes. 



Presentations of Books from America received through the Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, October 2, 1877 :— 



1. From Prof essor Henry — Smithsonian Report for 1875 ; Smithsonian 

 Contributions to Knowledge, Vols. 20, 21. 



2. From Dr. F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist — Geological 



Survey of the Territories, Vol. 9 ; "Invertebrate Palaeontology," 

 by F. B. Meek, Vol. 10 ; " Monograph of the Geometrid Moths," 

 by A. S. Packard; "Geological and Geographical Survey of 

 Colorado, 1874," by Dr. F. V. Hayden; "Bulletin of U. S. 

 Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories," Vol. 2, 

 Nos. 2, 3, 4. 



3. From the Boston Society of Natural History — Proceedings of the 



Society, Vol. 18, parts 1 to 4 ; Occasional Papers, No. 2, 1875; 

 "The Spiders of the United States," by N. M. Hentz, M.D. ; 

 Memoirs of the Society, Vol. 2, part 4, Nos. 2, 3, 4. 



4. From the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Iowa — Proceed- 



ings of the Academy, Vol. 1., 1867-1876. 



5. From the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 



Detroit — Proceedings of twenty-fourth meeting of the Association, 

 1875. 



6. From A. Agassiz, Esq., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 



College, Cambridge — Bulletin of Museum, Vol. 3, Nos. 11 to 16 ; 

 Memoirs of Museum, Vol. 2, No. 9; "On Some Insect Defor- 

 mities," by Dr. Herman A. Hagen, Vol. 4, No. 10; "The 

 American Bisons, living and extinct," by J. A. Allen; Annual 

 ■ Report of Curator for 1875. 



7. From the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia — Proceed- 



ings, Vol. 15, No. 96, Vol. 16, Nos. 97 and 98, 1876. 



8. From the National Exhibition Commission, Rio Janeiro — " Brazillian 



Biographical Annual," by Joaquin Manoel de Macedo, Vols, 

 1, 2, 3. 



9. From the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences — Transactions, 



Vol. 3, part 1. 



10. From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston — 



Proceedings, Vol. 3, 1875-6. 



11. From the Essex Institute, Salem — Bulletin of the Institute, Vol. 



7, 1875. 



12. From the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences— Bulletin, Vol. 3, 



No. 3. 



13. From the Cincinnati Observatory — Catalogue of New Double 



Stars, 1876. 



14. From the Chief Signal Officer, Washington — Daily Bulletins 



(Meteorological), February to November, 1873, 11 vols. (Duplicate 

 of July). 



15. From the Superintendent, United States Coast Survey — Five 



_ Volumes of Surveys, 1869 to 1873. 

 Colonial publications received : — 



1. From the Royal Society of N.S. Wales — Journal and Proceed- 



ings of the Society, Vol. 10, 1876 ; Report for 1877 ; Annual 

 Report of Department of Mines, N.S. Wales, 1876. 



2. From John Tebbutt, Esq. — " Results of Meteorological Ob- 



servations made at the Private Observatory, Windsor, N.S. 

 Wales," during the years 1871, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. 



3. From Baron von Mueller— "Select plants eligible for industrial 



culture in Victoria," ppj293. 



