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culture and kindred subjects, with the price, that we 

 may enrich our library with them." In the same report 

 Gen. Dearborn announced that books which had been 

 ordered from London were daily expected ; and on the 

 27th of March, 1830, he reported the reception of 

 Martyn's edition of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, in 

 four folio volumes ; the Sy sterna Naturae of Linnaeus, 

 translated by Turton, in seven octavo volumes, with 

 plates ; the Transactions of the London Horticultural 

 Society and the Pomological Magazine, as far as pub- 

 lished ; Hooker's Pomona Londinensis, quarto, with 

 colored plates ; London's Encyclopaedias of Agriculture 

 and Gardening; Phillips's History of Vegetables, Poma- 

 rium Britannicum, and Sylva Florifera, and many other 

 works. Duhamel's Arbres Fruitiers was received in the 

 autumn of 1830. The works relating to cemeteries and 

 sepulchral monuments, ordered in the autumn of 1831, 

 have already been noticed in the account of Mount 

 Auburn. 



The agent of the Society for the purchase of books in 

 Paris was Isaac Cox Barnet, United States consul ; and 

 in London Col. Thomas Aspinwall, also consul, per- 

 formed the same service, both of these gentlemen being 

 corresponding members of the Society. The first 

 charge on the books of the treasurer is of $152, on the 

 7th of August, 1829, for a bill of exchange in favor of 

 Mr. Barnet, doubtless in payment for books ordered ; and 

 on the 24th of June, 1830, the whole amount remitted 

 to London and Paris on this account was more than 

 $700. When it is considered that the only funds of the 

 Society at this time were derived from admission fees 

 and assessments, the devotion of so large a part of its 

 means to the library will show the importance attached 



