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in the accommodations for the books. We have utilized, as it 

 seems to us, all available space in this room and the committee- 

 room, except that in front of the door into the Superintendent's 

 office ; even the space for the swinging of the folding doors has 

 been saved by putting the curtain in their place ; yet all this is a 

 trifle in comparison with our needs. The new cases will accom- 

 modate about one-fifth of the books that are not now properly 

 arranged. 



As no one now, probably, expects the Society to occupy the 

 Public Garden, we urge it to resume its consideration of the plans 

 for a gallery, long ago submitted to it. The increase in books 

 and pamphlets is, at present, remarkably rapid, and it is very 

 desirable that something be done at a very earl}' day. 



For the Committee, 



W. E. ENDICOTT, Chairman. 



LIBRARY ACCESSIONS. 



Books Purchased. 



Darlington, William, M. D. Florula Cestrica. An essay towards a 

 Catalogue of the Phaenogamous Plants, native and naturalized, 

 growing in the vicinity of the borough of West Chester, in Chester 

 County, Pennsylvania. With brief notices of their properties and 

 uses, in medicine, rural economy, and the arts. To which is sub- 

 joined an Appendix of the Useful and Cultivated Plants of the same 

 district. 8vo. pp. xv., 152. 3 colored plates. West Chester, 1826. 



Millspaugh, Charles F., M. D. American Medicinal Plants: an illus- 

 trated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as 

 Homoeopathic Remedies. Fascicle 6, completing the work. 4to. 

 30 colored plates. New York and Philadelphia : 1887. 



Lloyd, J. U. and C. G. Drugs and Medicines of North America, Vol. 2. 

 Nos. 3 to 5, Large 8vo. pamphlets, pp. 67-102. Plates 35-40, 

 figures 131-165. December, 1886, to June, 1887. 



Meehan, Thomas. The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in 

 their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects. Vols. 1 and 2 

 of the New Series, being vols. 3 and 4 of the whole. Large square 

 8vo. pp. 190, 204. 96 colored plates. Boston : 1880. 



