REPORT

OF

THE LIBRARIAN

OF

THE STATE LIBRARY,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING

SEPTEMBER 30, 1860.

BOSTON:
WILLIAM WHITE, PRINTER TO THE STATE.
1860.

TRUSTEES OF THE STATE LIBRARY.

NATHANIEL B. SHURTLEFF, M. D., Boston.
GEORGE LIVERMORE, Esq., Cambridge.
JAMES A. DIX, Esq., Boston.

JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE LEGISLATURE, FOR 1860.

GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, Librarian, ex officio.

SAMUEL C. JACKSON, Acting Librarian.

SARAH F. SNOW, Assistant.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.

To the Honorable Legislature of Massachusetts :

The Librarian of the State Library, in accordance with the General Statutes, Chap. 5, Sect. 8, presents the following as his Annual Report:

ADDITIONS TO THE STATE LIBRARY

From October 1, 1859, to September 30, 1860.

RECEIVED BY PURCHASE.

VOLUMES.

Letters on Modern Agriculture. By Baron Von Liebig. New
York, 1859.

1

Memoirs of Catherine II. Written by Herself. New York, 1859.

1

Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Senior, Governor of Connecticut.
By I. W. Stuart. Boston, 1859.

1

History of the Republic of the United States. By John C.
Hamilton. Vols. 3, 4. New York, 1859.

History of the Life and Times of James Madison. By William
C. Rives. Vol. 1. Boston, 1859.

1

Country Life. A Handbook of Horticulture, Agriculture, and Landscape Gardening. By R. Morris Copeland. Boston, 1859.

Letters of Jack Downing, or Thirty Years out of the Senate.
New York, 1859.

1

Life of Andrew Jackson. By James Parton. Vols. 1, 2. New
York, 1860. (2 copies.)

Vols. 1

The Impending Crisis at the South; how to meet it. By Hinton Rowan Helper. New York, 1860. (2 copies.)

2

Public and Private History of Napoleon III. By Samuel M.
Smucker. Philadelphia, 1859.
American Journal of Education. Edited by Henry Barnard.
Vols. 5-8. Hartford, 1858-60..

New American Cyclopædia. Vols. 7-10. New York, 1859, '60.
Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography. Divs. 4-8.

Abridgment of the Debates of Congress. By Thomas H.
Benton. Vols. 12-14. New York, 1859, '60.

.

United States Digest. By George Silsbee Hale. Vols. 17, 18.
Boston, 1859.

The Puritans and Queen Elizabeth. By Samuel Hopkins.
Vol. 2. Boston, 1860.

2

De Bow's Review. Vols. 1-11 condensed into one volume.
Continued to Vol. 27. New Orleans, 1852-59.
Law Library, from its commencement, July, 1833, to 1859.
Vols. 1-99. Philadelphia, 1833-59.
Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery. By Francis
Vesey, Junior. 1789-1817. Edited, with Notes, &c., by
Charles Sumner and J. C. Perkins. Vols. 1-20. Boston,
1844.

Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Bench, from Mich.
Term 26 George III., to Trin. Term 40 George III. By
Charles Durnford and Edward H. East. Vols. 1-8. Phila-
delphia, 1811.
Treatise on the Contract of Sale. By R. J. Pothier. Translated
from the French by L. S. Cushing. Boston, 1839.
Coleman and Caine's Cases in the Supreme Court of New York.
1794-1805. Boston, 1808.

1

17

99

20

8

1

1

Reports of Cases at Nisi Prius in King's Bench and Common
Pleas. 1807-16. By John Campbell. New York. 1810-22.
Reports of Cases in King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Ex-
chequer. By Sir John Comyns. Dublin, 1791. .
Exchequer Reports from 1655 to 1660.
Hardres. Dublin, 1792.

Institutes of the Law of England. By Sir Edward Coke, with
Notes by J. H. Thomas. Philadelphia, 1827.
Essay on the Law of Bailments. By Sir William Jones, with
Notes by John Balmanno. Philadelphia, 1804.
Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent. By W. Paley.
Philadelphia, 1822.