As in previous years, the library has been indebted to many different persons for useful and valuable gifts, especially of pamphlets and books printed privately or in limited editions. The name of the donor will be found appended to each gift in the following catalogue of the additions made during the year. It will be seen that the accessions from all sources, as represented in the catalogue, have covered a wide range of subjects, which, by liberal interpretation, properly come within the range of literature which a State library should contain. The development of the library in the special lines of statute law, reports of judicial decisions, political, social and economic science, local history and genealogy, and the official publications of the general government and of the several States, has received constant and watchful care. No effort has been spared to make all portions of the collection readily available to any person engaged in special research. CHANGE IN THE LAW. The Legislature of 1893 passed a law the effect of which was to separate the library from any official relation to the Board of Education, and to make the State Librarian an appointee of the Governor and Council, to serve during their pleasure. C. B. TILLINGHAST, Librarian. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE GENERAL CATALOGUE, INCLUDING THE ADDITIONS FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30, 1893. ADDITIONS TO THE STATE LIBRARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1893. Note.-The figures in brackets at the end of the titles indicate the sources from which the books were received, thus, [1], received by purchase; [2], by exchange; [3], by donation (names of individual donors being added); [4], from officers of government. Abandoned farms. See Massachusetts. Board of Agriculture. Abbe, Cleveland. On the production of rain. n.t.p. [1892.] 8°. (13) p. [3] Abbot, Francis Ellingwood. Professor Royce's libel. A public appeal for redress to the corporation and overseers of Harvard University. Bost., 1891. 8°. 48 p. [3] Abbott, Austin. A digest of New York statutes and reports, Jan. 1, 1892-93, with tables of statutes, constitutional provisions, rules of court, and cases cited. N. Y., 1893. 1. 8°. [1] New cases selected chiefly from the decisions of the courts of the state of New York, [1891-93]. With an analytical index to points of law and practice in the standard reports of New York. Vol. 28-29. N. Y., 1892-93. 2 v. 8°. [1] Abbott, Evelyn, editor. Heroes of the nations. N. Y., 1893. 2 v. 12°. Portraits, folded maps and illus. [1] Namely. Morris, W. O. Napoleon and the military supremacy of revolutionary France. Aber, Mrs. Mary Alling. Souls. h.t.p. [Chicago], 1803. 12°. 176 p. [3, Abington, Mass. Directory. See Foss, A. E., & Co. Abstracts of title. See Warvelle, G. W. Acheson, E. G. Carborundum: its history, manufacture and uses. Phila., 1893. 8°. 29 p. [3] Acme Haversack, The, of patriotism and song. Vol. 5, no. 6; v. 6, no. 2. Nov. 1891 with addition March 1892; May 1892. Syracuse, N. Y., 1891-92. 1. 8°. Illus. [3] Actiniæ. See United States. National Museum. Adams, Charles Francis. The centennial milestone. Address in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Quincy, July 4, 1892. Camb., 1892. 8°. 59 p. Plates. [3, Author.] The Coddington school lands. The Mount Wollaston cemetery and alms-house farm. n.t.p. [Quincy, Mass., 1891.] (5) p. [3] Cuttings from the Quincy Patriot, Sept. 19, 1891. |