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The following are some of the larger donations received in 18GG: 



From the Genevese National Institute, Geneva, 17 volumes, com- 

 pleting the "Memoirs" and "Bulletin;" 



Eoyal Statistical Bureau, Munich, " Contributions to the Statistics 

 of the Kingdom of Bavaria," vols. 2-15; 



Society of Emulation for the study of the History and Antiquities 

 of Flanders, Bruges — 23 volumes of their publications; 



Numismatic Society, London. "The Numismatic Chronicle," 21 

 volumes; 



Ministry of Public Instruction, Paris, "Description of Egypt, pub- 

 lished by order of Napoleon the Great," 21 volumes folio, and several 

 other valuable works; 



Library of the Parliament, Melbourne, 51 official documents, 1st 

 volume of "Plants Indigenous to Victoria, Australian Mosses, No. 1," 

 and other works; 



Society of Agriculture, Sciences, Arts, and Belles-Lettres, of the 

 Departmerrt of Indre and Loire, "Annals," 12 volumes* 



Friesland Society of History, Antiquities, and Philology, Leuwarden, 

 10 volumes and 25 pamphlets; 



Government of the Netherlands, 34 volumes and 45 pamphlets; 



Belgian Entom,ological Society, Brussels, "Annals," vols. 1-S; 



University of Chili, Santiago, 10 volumes; 



Charles Kessler, Reading, Pa., "The Naturalist," vols. 1-22, 

 1774-1787; 



Dr. G. J. Fisher, Sing Sing, N. Y., medical journals and othor 

 medical books, 77 volumes; 



Dr. K. Koch, Berlin, 5 volumes and 336 pamphlets; 



Professor C. J. Tornberg, Lund, Sweden, 11 volumes and 8 

 pamphlets. 



From the Royal Library of Dresden we have received a series of 

 232 original discourses or theses and tracts, most of which were writ- 

 ten by Luther, and the remainder by his contemporaries, and nearly 

 all of which were published during the lifetime of the great reformer. 



These tracts were referred to Rev. Dr. Morris, librarian of the 

 Peabody Institute of Baltimore, for a translation of the catalogue, to 

 whom we are indebted for the following remarks in regard to them: 



"The majority of these brief treatises can be found in almost any 

 entire edition of Luther's works, and are therefore not rare; but 

 what renders this collection interesting to the bibliographer is, that 

 they are all first impressions, and not reprints. The proofs were 

 doubtless revised and corrected by his own hand, as most of them 



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