1858.] SENATE— No. 4. 229 



The Board may rest assured that this investigation will not be 

 suffered to slumber, and we would, in this public manner, invite any 

 person in possession of a fact upon the subject, to communicate the 

 same to us although he may not have received a copy of the circular, 

 always premising that we seek no man's opinion but simply his facts. 

 All which is respectfully submitted, by 



John C. Baktlett, 

 Jabez Fishek, 

 Nathan Durfee, 



Commiltee. 

 Boston, Dec. 8, 1857. 



The Secretary read the following letter from the Earl of 

 Clarendon, acknowledging the receipt of the Reports of the 

 Board : — 



Fokeign Office, Nov. 13, 1857. 

 Sib. : I have had the honor to forward to his Royal Highness, the 

 Prince Consort, your letter of the 29th July, with the accompanying 

 volumes upon the Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Massachu- 

 setts, and His Royal Highness desires that I will convey to you and 

 to the gentlemen composing the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, 

 His Royal Highness's warmest thanks for this very flattering and 

 gratifj'ing mark of attention on their part. 



These volumes will form a very valuable addition to His Royal 

 Highness's library, and he accepts them with the greatest pleasure. 

 I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most ob't serv't, 



Clakendon. 

 Charles L. Flint, Esq., &c., &c. 



« 

 THE LIBRAEY. 



The Agricultural Library connected with the office of the 

 Secretary of the Board, has now become the largest and most 

 valuable collection of the kind in New England, and is proba- 

 bly the most extensive in the United States. A complete cata- 

 logue is to be found in the Appendix, and is now published for 

 the use of those who are active in creating similar agricultural 

 libraries in the various towns of the Commonwealth. The 

 frequency with which applications are made to me to suggest 

 such a list of books as would be most suited for such libraries, 



