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will be distributed to all the principal libraries of the country, and 

 with the liberal policy which has been adopted in regard to the books 

 of the Smithsonian collection, will serve to render the library more 

 generally useful. 



By exchanges there have been received 719 octavos, 167 quartos, 

 and 24 folios ; of parts of volumes and pamphlets, in octavo, 2,119 ; 

 in quarto, 779 ; in folio, 581 ; maps and charts 200 ; total, 4,589. 

 In addition to these about 400 volumes were purchased. 



Among the valuable works received during the year, are the fol- 

 lowing : 



55 volumes from the Royal Library of Stockholm. 



Comptes-Rendus, 1859, 18G0, 1861, with atlas, from the Commission 

 Imperiale Archaslogique, St. Petersburg. 



12 volumes and 18 parts of volumes from the Koninlijk Institut des 

 Ingenieurs, d'Gravenhage. 



52 volumes and 94 pamphlets from the Nederlandsch Maatschappig 

 ter Bevordering van Nijverheid, Haarlem. 



10 volumes of its own publications from the Societe pour la recherche 

 et la conservation des Monuments Historiques du Grand Duche de 

 Luxembourg, Luxembourg. 



24 volumes and 12 parts from the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wis- 

 senschaften, Vienna. 



9 volumes and 29 charts from the Etablissement Geographique de 

 Bruxelles. 



21 volumes of Proceedings from the Societe d' Agriculture, Com- 

 merce, Science et Arts du Dept. de la Marne. 



24 volumes of Proceedings and Transactions from the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers, London. 



36 volumes and 114 charts from the Board of Admiralty, London. 



Large donations from the Royal University of Norway. 



Braddam's Memoirs of the Royal Society of London, vol. I — X, 

 1745, from Mrs. Mary A. Malthie, Syracuse, New York. 



26 volumes from the Regents of the University in behalf of the 

 State of New York. 



Lectures. — The usual course of lectures has been commenced for the 

 present season, and will embrace the following : 



Five lectures, by Rev. John Lord, of New York, on the "Fall of 

 the Roman Empire." Subjects. — I. The grandeur and glory of the 

 Ancient Civilization — The external splendor of the Roman Em- 

 pire in its latter days. II. The internal hollo wness and defects 



