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The duplicate volumes and the novels ordered at the meeting 

 held on the sixth of December, to be sold, are catalogued and at 

 an early day will be offered at public sale. 



The committee further report that there is on hand 62 copies 

 of the catalogue, of which 12 copies are bound with the supple- 

 ment, and 400 copies of the supplement in sheets. "We recom- 

 mend to our successors that a further supplement be prepared, 

 containing the books added to the library since 1847. 



Of the appropriation of $2,500 made in 1851, there still re- 

 mains a balance of $246j^o^q unexpended, and at the disposal of 

 the library committee. 



The committee further report that they have distributed the 

 volumes of Transactions of the Institute to members as they 

 were called for, and have exchanged with foreign, kindred and 

 other institutions about 100 copies. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



WM. HIBBARD, 

 EDWARD WALKER, 

 THOS. McELRATH, 



Committee. 



New York, February 6, 1861. 



