by him to the Library of Congress is of much interest, as it is of undoubted authenticity and furthermore was held under Hsü Tung, the president of the Hanlin College, a noted xenophobe and friend of the Boxers, as is certified by the letter from Dr. Reid accompanying the gift.

A valuable set of the publications of the International Institute at Shanghai was also presented by the Director, Rev. Gilbert Reid. Of particular interest is the Journal of the Institute, containing many articles by Chinese scholars of all schools and China's treaties with foreign powers and their exposition.

A valuable gift by Dr. Hing Kwei Fung is Hui k'o shu mu, a printed catalogue of the works comprised in the principal Chinese ts'ung shu or collection of reprints; and a manuscript card catalogue made by Dr. Fung of the ts'ung shu contained in the above works, the cards being arranged by the number of strokes in the first character of the title, making it very easy to refer to the printed work and find the works contained in any given ts'ung shu.

The St. Joseph College, at Macao, China, presented a number of valuable grammars and dictionaries in Chinese and Portuguese printed by the college.

The Viscount Foukouba, of the Imperial household department at Tokyo, presented a copy of his work on the citrus fruits of Kishu Province, Japan, one of the first modern works on the subject published in 1881, and now exceedingly rare.

Documents

Purchased documentary material included the following: PURCHASES: Confederate States of America. Messages of the President. Feb. 3, 16, 17, 19 (2 messages), 20; Apr. 16, 21, 1863 (8 pieces). Delaware. Journal of the House of Representatives, session of January, 1796. Journals of the Senate, sessions of November, 1792; January, 1793; May, 1793; January, 1794; January, 1795; November, 1796.

New Hampshire. Journals of the House of Representatives: December, 1788; June, 1791; November, 1791; December, 1795; June, 1799; December, 1799; June, 1800; June, 1811. Journals of the

Senate: December, 1786; December, 1788; June, 1789; June, 1790;
November, 1701; June, 1794; December, 1795; June, 1797; June,
1708; November, 1798.

New Jersey. Votes and proceedings of the 21st Assembly, 2d sitting,
January, 1707.

New Jersey (Colony. Provincial congress, October, 1775. Journal of
the votes and proceedings of the Provincial congress of New-Jersey,
held at Trenton in the month of October, 1775-

Surveyor general. General instructions by the surveyor general to the deputy surveyors of the eastern division of New Jersey. [Trenton? 1746?] ̧

North Carolina. Journal of the House of Representatives, November,

1700.

U. S. Continental congress, 1774. Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental congress. Containing the Bill of rights; a list of grievances; occasional resolves, and the particulars of the general association entered into by all the colonies. Pub. by order of the Congress, October 25, 14. Bristol Eng Reprinted and sold by W. Pine.

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Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental congress, held at Philadelphia on the gth of September, 1774 Containing the Bill of rights a list of grievances, occasional resolves, the association, an address to the people of Great-Britain, and a memorial to the mhabitants of the British America, colonies. Pah by order of Congress Philadelphia Printed Boston: Reprinted by Edes and Gill and T and ↑ Fleet 14

A circular letter from the Congress of the United States of Amonios to their constituents Phiano phic Printed September, Reprinted by æder of the General, assembly of the

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Church, Benjamin. The entertaining history of King Philip's war, which began in the month of June, 1675. As also of expeditions more lately made against the common enemy, and Indian rebels, in the eastern parts of New-England; with some account of the divine providence towards Col. Benjamin Church: by Thomas Church, esq. his son. 2d ed. Boston: printed, 1716. Newport, Rhode-Island, Reprinted and sold by S. Southwick, 1772. With two plates engraved by Paul Revere.

Clinton, Sir Henry. Observations on Mr. Stedman's History of the American war. London, Printed for J. Debrett, 1794; New York, Reprinted, 1864.

The Confederate States almanac, and repository of useful knowledge for 1865. Mobile, H. C. Clarke [1864].

Council of proprietors of the western division of New-Jersey. The petitions and memorials of the proprietors of West and East Jersey to the Legislature of New-Jersey. New York, Printed by S. Kollock [1784?]. Dickinson, Jonathan. God's protecting providence, man's surest help and defence in times of greatest difficulty and most imminent danger, evidences in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow ... Faithfully related by one of the persons concerned therein, Jonathan Dickenson ... 6th ed. London, 1787.

7th ed. London, 1790.

Goddard, William. The partnership; or, The history of the rise and progress of the Pennsylvania chronicle... Philadelphia, Printed by William Goddard in Arch street, 1770.

Jones, John Paul. Life of ... Giving a faithful account of the extraordinary perils, voyages, adventures, etc. London, J. Fairburn, n. d.

ca. 1820.

Kelly, George Fox. Eight months in Washington; or, Scenes behind the curtain. 1863.

Knights of the Order of the Sons of Liberty. Original by-laws. Lincoln, Abraham. A letter from President Lincoln to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863. Philadelphia, 1879.

...

A narrative of affairs lately received from his Majesties Island of Jamaica: viz. I. Sir Thomas Linch's speech . . . II. Samuel Bernard speech . . III. An humble address from his Majesties council . . . IV. The governour's speech at the proroguing the assembly. London, Printed for Randal Taylor, 1683. Prince, Thomas. Extraordinary events the doings of God, and marvellous in Pious eyes, Sermon on the taking of the City of Louisbourg... Bost. Printed: Lond. Reprinted, 1746.

[Welde, Thomas & Winthrop, John.] A short story of the rise, reign and ruine of the Antinomians, Familist and Libertines, that infected the churches of New England. Printed for Thos. Parkhurse, 1692. Zarati, Augustin de. Historia del descubrimiento y Conquista del Peru, con las cosas naturales que senaladamente alli se gallan, y los sucessos que la anido. Orig. ed. Anvers, 1555.

Illustrated books

PURCHASES: Among many books acquired for the importance of their illustrations, the following may be noted:

PURCHASES:

A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The comic history of England. London, Punch Office, 1847-8. 2 vols. 1st ed.

George Cruikshank's Tabie-book. London, Punch Office, 1845- Ist. ed. Cousin. Jean. Livre de perspectiue. Paris, 1560. Bound by Lortic. Erasmus, Desiderius. Moriae encomium: or, A panegyrick upon folly... Done into English and illustrated with above fifty curious cuts, designed and drawn by Hans Holbeine. The second edition. London, Printed for Charles Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's church-yard, 1713.

Foote, Samuel. Bon mots of Samuel Foote and Theodore Hook,
edited by Walter Jerrold with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.
London, J. M. Dent and Company, 1894.

Fossati, Georgio. Recueil de diverses fables dessinées et gravées
par lui; en italien et en françois. Venise, Pecora, 1744-
Franks, Sir Augustus Wollaston. Notes on bookplates . . . No. 1.
English dated bookplates, 1574-1800. [London] Printed for private
distribution [by A. Boot and son] 1887. (Author's autograph pre-
sentation copy to Albert Sutton, Dec. 1888. No more issued.)
Lamb, Charles. Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold
edited by Walter Jerrold with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.
London, J. M. Dent and company, 1893.

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political and
satirical poems, parodies, and Jeux-d'esprit of George Canning, etc.
Ed. by C. Edmonds. 2d ed. London, 1854, G. Willis. 6 etch-
ings by Jas. Gillray.

Posthius, Johannes. Johan. Posthii Germershemii Tetrasticha in Ovidii Metam. Lib. xv. qvibus accesserunt Vergilij Solis figurae elegantiss. &iam primum in lucem editae. 1569.

Smith, Albert. The Struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad. 1st ed. London, Bentley, 1848. Portrait of author and 32 etched plates by John Leech.

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher). Uncle Tom's cabin. Twentyseven illustrations by George Cruikshank. First English edition. London, Cassell, 1852.

Varying widely in subject matter, but having a common Miscellaneous interest as valuable acquisitions, are the following:

Dugdale, Sir Wm. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the Abbies
and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Friaries and Cathedrals and Col-
legiate Churches, with their dependencies in England and Wales,
ed. by J. Caley, etc. 1817-30. 6 vols. in 8.

Heyrick, Thomas. Miscellany poems. Cambridge, Printed by John
Hayes for the author, 1691, Bound with: The submarine voyage.
A pindarick poem in four parts. Cambridge, Printed by John Hayes
for the author, 1691.

Hopkinson, Francis. Science. A poem. Philadelphia, Printed by
William Dunlap in Market Street, 1762.

Martialis, Marcus Valerius. Ex otio Negotium. Or, Martiall his
epigrams translated. With sundry poems and fancies, by R.
Fletcher . . . London, Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears and
are to be sold at the Bible in Bedford street in Covent-garden, 1656.
The Benedictional of Saint Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester 963-
984, reproduced in facsimile from the manuscript in the library of
the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth and edited with text and
introduction by George Frederic Warner and Henry Austin Wilson.
Oxford, Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, 1910.
Gerard, John. The herball, or General historie of plantes. Gathered
by John Gerarde . . . London, J. Norton, 1597. First edition.
Fuller, Thomas. The history of the worthies of England. London,
1662.

The receipts by transfer from governmental libraries in Transfers the District of Columbia aggregated 21,860 volumes and pamphlets, 38,758 periodical numbers, and 372 maps and charts.

The accessions from this source included: