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These, as will be seen, comprise publications from all parts of the United 

 States and Canadas. Some of them have not been received regularly ; 

 these will probably be discontinued, another year, as well as some which 

 are but little called for by the members ; and others, not in the above list, 

 may be procured should it be deemed advisable. It will be the aim of the 

 Committee to supply the Reading Room with every well-conducted and 

 useful horticultural or agricultural periodical, and they cordially invite the 

 assistance of the members to aid them in procuring any for which they do 

 not already subscribe. 



Your Committee have experienced great difficulty in ascertaining what 

 foreign periodicals were most useful for general reading, and some of those 

 for which they have subscribed have not been regularly received ; but they 

 hope for improvement in this respect as their arrangements become more 

 perfected. 



The following is a list of the foreign periodicals which have been sup- 

 plied to the Reading Room during the last year : — 



Revue Horticole. 

 Illustration Horticole. 

 Curtis's Botanical Magazine. 

 The Florist. 



The Horticultural Cabinet. 

 The Cottage Gardener. 

 The Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 The Farmers' Magazine. 



The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 

 Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 

 Journal of the Bath and West of England Agricultural Society. 

 Flore de Serres. 

 The Floral Magazine. 



Pescatore's Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, and the Continuation by 

 Linden. 



Your Committee also found that there was no means of marking the 

 pamphlets and papers of the Society in the Reading Room ; they therefore 

 caused a stamp to be procured, on which the name of the Society, with the 

 words, " Not to be taken from the room," was engraved. Each periodical, 

 as soon as received, is thus stamped, so that the accidents of missing 

 periodicals have been of less frequent occurrence. 



A book was also procured, in which the names of those taking books 

 from the Library are registered, with the date, and a space for the signature 

 of the member, and the date of return. Thus a receipt is given by each 

 member, on his taking a book from the Library, whereby the possibility of 

 its loss is very greatly lessened. 



Your Committee, however, regret to say that there were, when they took 

 charge of the Library, several very valuable works missing, which, though 

 using every endeavor, they have failed to trace. They are the following : 



