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From the Overijssel Society for the Promotion of Provincial Welfare, 

 Zwolle, 8 volumes, 8 parts, and 5 pamphlets. 



From the Koyal Statistical Bureau, Copenhagen, " Statistisk Tabel- 

 voerk," vols, xx-xxvi, (2 copies ;) " Sanimendrug," etc., 10 parts. 



From Messrs, Robert and Alexander Stuart, New York, " Anti-Nicene 

 Christian Library ; Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down 

 to A. D. 325," 24 volumes. 



From the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry, aDd Commerce, Rome, 

 10 volumes and three pamphlets published by the department. 



From the Central Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, " Bidrug till sver- 

 iges officiela Statistik," 22 parts. 



From the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Modena, 27 medical pam- 

 phlets. 



From the Norwegian Government, "Norges Officiela Statistik," 1873, 

 13 parts, 4to ; and 4 volumes on Norwegian Statistics. 



From the State library of Virginia, 9 volumes of State documents. 



In addition to the books which have been received, we are indebted 

 to Major-General J. H. Lefroy, governor of Bermuda, a special friend 

 of the Institution, for a series of manuscripts procured by him during 

 a late visit to England, and presented through him by his relative, Mrs. 

 Dundas, of Canon Hall, Larbert, N. B. 



The following is a report on these manuscripts by Mr. Spofford, Li- 

 brarian of Congress : 



" These original records form a collection of the highest interest and 

 value as materials of personal and political history at a period which 

 must ever remain the most importaut era in the annals of the United 

 States. One of the volumes contains twelve reports submitted to the 

 lords of Her Majesty's treasury, by John Wilinot, Colonel Dundas, and 

 the other commissioners, upon the losses and services of the claimants 

 who were loyal to the British crown during the revolutionary war, and 

 who were afterward indemnified by act of Parliament. Six reports in 

 addition, signed by Colonel Dundas and Mr. J. Pemberton, commission- 

 ers, and extending from A. D. 1784 to 1789, are also embraced. Thirty- 

 four of the manuscript volumes contain a large amount and variety of facts 

 and testimony regarding the landed possessions and personal property ot 

 hundreds of British subjects in the New England States, as well as iu 

 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, etc. As most of these papers 

 have never been published, they are the more valuable and original and 

 unique repositories of information regarding the persons to whom they 

 relate, the descendants of many of whom still survive among the people 

 of the United States." 



The edition of the volume of the catalogue of Transactions of Learned 

 Societies, originally prepared by the Institution, containing a list of the 

 works of this branch of bibliography, deposited in the Library of Con- 

 gress, having been exhausted, Mr. Spofford is about to publish a new 

 edition containing all the late additions which have been made to the 



