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fact that the appropriation of $2,500, made by the Institute in 

 1851, has not yet been exhausted. 



Finally, your committee deem it to be but an act of justice for 

 them to attest the faithfulness with which the librarian, Mr. Harris, 

 has performed the duties of his office, and the promptitude and 

 cheerfulness with which he has co-operated with the committee in 

 advancing the interests of the library. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



WILLIAM HIBBARD, 

 D.MEREDITH REESE, 

 WILLIAM LAWTON, 

 DAVID R. JAQUES, 

 WILLIAM H. BROWNE, 

 WILLIAM B. LEONARD, 

 Library Committee. 

 New York, February 2, 1860. 



LIST OF WORKS PURCHASED. 



Muspratt's Chemistry, vol, 5. 

 Benton's Debates, vols. 10, 11, and 12. 

 Faraday's Researches in Chemistry, &c. 

 Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom, 2 vols. 



do Principia, 2 vols. 



do Generative Organs. 



do Compendium. 



do Life. 



American Stair Builder. 

 Lesley on Iron Manufacture. 

 French on Drainage. 

 Weeds and Useful Plants (Darlington). 

 Langstroth on the Hive and Honey Bee. 

 Downing's Landscape Gardening (new edition). 

 De La Rive's Electricity, 3 vols. 

 Noad's Electricity, vol. 2. 

 Mitchell's Assaying. 

 Useful Metals and their Alloys. 

 Price's Photographic Manipulations. 

 Bakewell's Electricity. 

 Hogg on the Microscope. 

 Liebig's Modern Agriculture. 

 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 18 vols, 

 American Cyclopsedia, 7 vols. 

 Vieux Neuf, 2 vols. 



