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Encyclopsedia Britannica, eighth edition. 



American Cyclopaedia. 



De La Rive's Electricity. 



Faraday's Researches. 



Weale's Public Works of Great Britain. 



Among the works presented, a list of which is annexed, will be 

 found the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, 15 vols., 8vo., presented 

 by the Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society ; valuable 

 public documents from the Honorable Hamilton Fish, the Honora- 

 ble Preston King, and the Regents of the University of the State 

 of New York; Transactions and Reports of various agricultural 

 societies, and the principal agricultural periodicals. 



At the date of our last annual report, there were 500 volumes 

 of duplicates of works in the library, to be disposed of. The 

 committee have succeeded in disposing of some by exchange, and 

 of some by private sale. The sum of $14.75 has been so received, 

 and paid over by the librarian to the treasurer of the Institute. 



Of the 1,000 copies of the Catalogue originally printed, only 50 

 copies are now remaining in sheets ; of the Supplement, there 

 are 400 copies. The Supplement was issued in 1857, since which 

 time many important additions to the library have been made. 

 The committee propose, as soon as the financial condition of the 

 Institute will admit of it, to make further valuable additions, and 

 issue another Supplement, or an entirely new Catalogue. 



During the past j^ear, there has been expended for books and 

 binding as follows, viz : 



For purchases, $217 41 



binding, _ 74 50 



$291 91 

 Of the appropriation made by the Institute in 1851, for the 



purchase of books, $2,500 00 



There has been expended, _ 2,199 46 



Leaving the sum of $300 54 



still unexpended, and at the disposal of the committee for addi- 

 tional purchases. 



In conclusion, your committee would remark, that while they 

 have had the growth of the library constantly in view, and have 

 felt a deep solicitude for its speedy development, still the interests 

 of the Institute have always been paramount, and that the com- 

 mittee have exercised the necessary economy is proved by the 



