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able to obtain the numbers. Should any of the members have the missing 

 numbers they would be gratefully received as a donation, or purchased at 

 a liberal price. 



They are as follows : 



Edwards' Botanical Register. 



Album Pomologie, 1 and 2 vols. 



Loudon's Gardeners' Magazine, from 1835 to 1844 inclusive. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, from vol. 51 to vol. 8, last series, that is, 



the whole second series. 

 Cottage Gardener, vol. 15. 

 The whole number of volumes at present in the Library is about nine 

 hundred and twenty-five ; of these, 



Twenty-five are folio. 

 One hundred are quarto. 

 Seven hundred are octavo. 

 One hundred are duodecimo. 

 The whole number of pamphlets and papers is not far from two thousand. 



In conclusion, your Committee cannot but be well pleased with the im- 

 proved condition of the Library ; a beginning has been made Avhich may 

 result in much in the future, and another year will show a vast improve- 

 ment. 



It is with the deepest satisfaction they find the Society have so ap- 

 preciated their labors as to honor them with a reelection, and they trust, 

 with the cooperation of the other officers and members of the Society, to 

 make the Library and Reading Room a potent means of usefulness and 

 improvement. 



Your Committee would respectfully ask for an appropriation of five hun- 

 dred dollars for the increase of the Library for the year 1861, and also that 

 the Society assume the expense necessary in binding the various magazines 

 and periodicals, amounting in the aggregate to about fifty dollars per 

 annum. 



Edward S. Rand, Jr., 



William A. Harris, 



J. Otis Williams, } Committee. 



W. C. Strong, 



R. McCleary Copeland. j 



