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Audubon's Birds, 8vo. edition, 2d vol. 

 Illustration Horticole, 2d vol. 



Anderson's Introduction to the Practice of Gardening, 2 vols. 

 Bigelow's Plants of Boston, 1 vol. 

 Bryant's Floral Dictionary, 1 vol. 

 Downing's Landscape Gardening, I vol. 

 Gilpin's Landscape Gardening, 1 vol. 

 American Orchardist, 1 vol. 

 Encyclopaedia of Gardening. 

 Mcintosh's Greenhouse, 1 vol. 

 Nicol's Practical Planter, 1 vol. 

 Phillips' Pomonium Britannicum, 1 vol. 

 Phillips' Silva Florifera, vols. 1 and 2. 

 Jardins du Roi du Prusse. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Horticulture de Rouen. 

 Soyer's Treatise on Cactus and Dahlia. 

 Smith's Catalogue of Phsenogamous Plants in South Kent. 

 Saunders' Culture of the Vine. 



Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, by Vertismenil, 2 vols. 

 And most earnestly would we urge members to examine their libraries and 

 book-shelves, to see if any of the above have not ignorantly been retained, 

 as thereby much inconvenience or serious loss to the Society may be pre- 

 vented. 



The volumes, of themselves, are of little value, but, as portions of sets, 

 are invaluable, as many are now out of print, and cannot be procured at 

 any price. 



Donations of horticultural or agricultural works would also be thankfully 

 received, and acknowledged as provided in the laws relating to the Library. 

 It is impossible for us all at once to place our Library in a position cor- 

 responding with our condition, but, by constant and untiring efforts, much 

 may be done each year to attain this end. 



During the past year two most valuable and rare works have been added 

 to the Library by the Society. 



At the regular May meeting of the Society, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, in 

 a few words, called the attention of the Society to the services rendered 

 to Natural History by James D. Dana, of New Haven, and, on motion, it 

 was voted — That the Library Committee be specially authorized to purchase 

 his works for the Society, at a cost of sixty dollars, the same to be appro- 

 priated and paid for out of the treasury, as follows : 



Synopsis of the Report on Zoophytes, 180 pp., Svo. 

 Atlas of Zoophites, containing sixty-one colored plates. 

 Structure and Classification of Zoophites, 128 pp., 4to. 

 Report on Crustacea, 2 vols, of text, 1600 pp., 4to. 

 Folio vol. of 96 Plates, partly colored. 

 At the regular October meeting of the Society, on motion of Eben 

 Wight, it was voted— That the Library Committee be specially authorized 

 to purchase, and the Treasurer to pay for, at an expense of $25, Histoire 



