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is 5 inclies long by 3 quarters of an inch broad, is well and deeply cut 

 with figures — three lions, and two gryphons or griffins. I send you 

 a rough impression of part of it. It is almost classical in its type ; 

 the other side is plain, except a hollow at one end. Could it have 

 been used in book-binding to make an impression in boiled leather, as 

 was used in the covers of our MSS. ? — Believe me ever, very sincerely 

 yours, 



"E. PL Shieley." 



Several donations to the Library were announced, and thanks 

 were voted to the donors. These will be found enumerated below in 

 the list of works presented to the Library from March to December, 

 1874. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



DONATIONS TO THE LIBEARY. 



From March, 1874, to Decemher, 1874. 



Titles. Donors. 



Academies and Societies. 

 Albany. 



Eclectic Medical Society of the State of ITew York. 

 Transactions for 1871. 8vo, Albany, 1871. 



Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of JN'ew York. 



Transactions, Yols. YIII.-IX., 1870-1. 8vo, Albany, 1870- 

 71. 

 Medical Society of the State of Xew York. 



Transactions for 1871-2. 8vo, Albany, 1872-3. 



State University of New York. 



Twenty-first Annual Report on the Condition of the State 

 Cabinet of Natural History. 8vo, Albany, 1871. 



' Trustees of the New York State Library. 



Fifty-fourth and Eifty-fifth Annual Eeports. 8vo, Albany, 

 1872-3. Subject- Index of the General Library, 1872. 8vo, 

 Albany, 1872. 



