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umes. These were published with the Transactions of 

 the Society; but the later ones, in 1854 (18mo, 

 enumerating 414 volumes), 1867, and 1873, have been 

 in separate pamphlets. According to the report of the 

 Library Committee for 1860, there were then 25 folios, 

 100 quartos, 700 octavos, and 100 duodecimos, making 

 a total of 925 volumes. April 1, 1867, there were 

 1,290 volumes, and, at the end of the year 1878, 3,400 

 volumes, and 600 pamphlets. 



The first chairman of the Library Committee was 

 Gen. Dearborn, to whose zeal and energy in laying the 

 foundations of the library, his correspondence, published 

 in the New England Farmer, and on file, bears ample 

 testimony. Gen. Dearborn held the position of chair- 

 man until 1835, when he was succeeded by Elijah Vose, 

 who served until 1840. Thomas Lee was chairman in 

 1841, and Marshall P. Wilder in 1842. Charles M. 

 Hovey was then elected, and served for seventeen years. 

 Edward S. Rand, Jun., served three years, commencing 

 in 1860, and again in 1875 and 1876. Francis Park- 

 man held the office from 1863 to 1874. To all these 

 gentlemen and their associates and successors, the Society 

 is indebted for their part in bringing the library to its 

 present state of usefulness. 



We learn from an advertisement in the New England 

 Farmer of May 18, 1831, requesting members to return 

 all books to the library, that a catalogue might be pre- 

 pared, that Edward W. Payne was then librarian ; and 

 from the same source it appears that Robert T. Paine 

 held that office two years later. In the list of officers 

 for 1835 and 1836, Charles M. Hovey, then a member 

 of the Library Committee, was designated as librarian. 

 By the By Laws adopted in 1836, the Library Com- 



