1873.] REPORT OF SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN. 73 



themselves, effectively, from the depredations of Frugivorous Birds, (a 

 liberty already allowed in the case of trespass by human beings!) your 

 Secretary dismisses the subject, concluding this Report with a dutiful 

 submission to that swarm of intellectual giants who crowd the State 

 House ; whose name is Legion ; and who stumble over each other in their 

 "pious rage" to serve the Commonwealth — for a consideration I of 



this, — 



Reductio ad Absurdum 

 In re Migra — Turdum. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



EDWARD WINSLOW LINCOLN^, 



Librarian and Secretary. 



HORTICIJLTURAL HaLL, 



Nov. 3d, A. D. 1873. 



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