REPORT. 



V 



logue, exclusive of separate tracts, is 6890, which may be 

 classed, according to size, in the following manner: 



Folio, 674 



Quarto, 1595 



Octavo, 3723 



Duodecimo, &c, 898 



6890 



Beside these are 435 separate Maps and Charts. 



From this enumeration, however, the Committee have 

 excluded the duplicate sets of Historical documents, amount- 

 ing to 442 octavo volumes, at the same time that these have 

 been entered in the Catalogue. 



It is with no ordinary pleasure and gratitude that the 

 Committee take this occasion to record the fact, that of the 

 above volumes no less than 5232 have been derived from 

 the munificence of a single individual, William Maclure, 

 Esq., President of our Institution, viz : 



Folio, 612 



Quarto, 1131 



Octavo, 2699 



Duodecimo, &c, 790 



5232 



To these are to be added nearly all the separate Maps and 

 Charts. 



A considerable proportion of these books was presented 

 between the years 1S16 and 1820 ; but the larger, and per- 

 haps more valuable part, was received from New Harmony, 

 in Indiana, towards the close of the past year. It has been 

 justly observed, in reference to the liberality of Mr. Maclure, 

 that the Academy "derived from this source a prosperity 



