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sented, in behalf of Dr. William J. Walker of Newport, 

 R.I., a certificate of ninety-seven shares of unpreferred 

 stock in the Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad, " for 

 promoting the objects of the Society, and for encoura- 

 ging the introduction and cultivation of superior vege- 

 tables." The value of this donation to the Society was 

 $2,354.43. 



The next donation was announced on the 6th of Feb- 

 ruary, 1869, when a letter from Ex-President Josiah 

 Stickney was read, in which he signified his intention to 

 give the use of $12,000 for the benefit of the Library. 

 The terms of this gift were stated in an Indenture 

 dated February 5, 1869. They were, that the Society 

 should hold the fund for thirty years from the first day 

 of February, 1869, and should every year during that 

 time appropriate from the income seven hundred dol- 

 lars, to be expended solely under the direction of the 

 Library Committee, in the purchase of books on botany, 

 horticulture, landscape gardening, architecture in its 

 connection with horticulture, and on other kindred sub- 

 jects, such books to be designated as the " Stickney 

 Library." No part of the income may be used for the 

 purchase of newspapers, pamphlets, or periodicals, or 

 for the binding of books, or the alteration or repair of 

 the library rooms, or for the salary of the librarian or 

 any other officer or employ 6 of the Society, or for the 

 care or preservation of the Library. Whenever the 

 mortgage on the estate of the Society shall be dis- 

 charged, the sum is to be invested in such securities as 

 shall be approved by Mr. Stickney 's executors and 

 trustees, as a separate fund, to be known as the " Stick- 

 ney Library Fund." At the expiration of thirty years 

 from the 1st of February, 1869, the principal is to be 

 paid to the president and fellows of Harvard College. 



