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periodicals, etc., in addition to the income of the Stick- 

 ney Fund, has been from $200 to $300. In 1875 a 

 special appropriation was made to take advantage of an 

 opportunity to secure that rare and valuable work the 

 Flora Danica. 



In 1873 the Society received, by the bequest of John 

 Lewis Russell, who had for many years been professor 

 of botany and horticultural physiology to the Society, 

 the largest donation of books that has ever been added 

 to its library, including all his valuable collection of 

 horticultural and botanical books, the names of which 

 will be found in the Supplement to the Catalogue of the 

 library published in 1873. Besides these, the gift 

 comprised a large number of duplicates of books previ- 

 ously in the library. The collection was especially rich 

 in works on cryptogamic botany, which had been Pro- 

 fessor Russell's specialty, and was a most worthy and 

 appropriate memento of his regard for the Society. 

 Next to Professor Russell's bequest, the largest number 

 of books received by the Society in a single donation 

 was 56 volumes from the Cambridge Horticultural 

 Society. So many of the members of this society were 

 also members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 that it was deemed inexpedient to keep up two separate 

 organizations so near together ; and when, in 1875, the 

 Cambridge society was dissolved, it was voted that all 

 the books in their possession which were not already in 

 the library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 be placed there. 



The first Catalogue of the library has already been 

 mentioned. The second was made January 1, 1842, 

 enumerating 286 volumes; the next in February, 1847. 

 with 292 volumes ; and the next in 1852, with 304 vol- 



