REPORT OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 



F. PARKMAN, Chairman. 



The steady growth of the Library has continued as heretofore. 

 The additions of the past year are shown in the lists given below. 



The Library has outgrown its catalogue, a new one has become 

 necessary, and Mr. Robert Manning is now engaged in preparing 

 it,#in accordance with a vote of the Society at its December 

 meeting. 



The income of the Stickney Fund has been expended in the 

 purchase of books ; and the appropriation of the Society has been 

 applied to account of periodicals and binding. In all amounting 

 to $976.08 . 



LIBEARY ACCESSIONS IN 1872. 



Hooker, W. J. Garden Fei-ns. 



Woodville, W. Medical Botany. 5 vols. 



Berkeley, M. J. Handbook of British Mosses. 



Pratt, Anne. Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies. 



Hoffy & Brinclee. North American Pomology. 



Berkeley, M. J. Outlines of British Fungology. 



Osborne, H. S. Plants of the Holy Laud. 



Sowerby's English Botany. Vols. 10 and 11 in continuation. 



Torrey, John. Botany of New York. 2 vols. 



De Candolle, A. Prodi'omius, etc. 19 vols. 



Badham, CD. Esculent Fungi of England. 



Sherer, John. Rural Life. 



Hooker, W. J. Second Century of Ferns. 



Robinson, Wm. Mushroom Culture. 



Culpepper's British Herbal. 



Smith, J. Domestic Botany. 



Hibbard, Shirley. The Fern Garden. 2 copies. 



Fulton, J. A. Peach Culture. 



Johnson, Mrs. S. 0. Every Woman her own Flower Gardener. 



Bryant, Arthur. Forest Trees. 



Miller, Thomas. My Father's Garden. 



Lees, W. N. Tea Cultivation in India. 



