Report of the Joint Library Committee of the Legislature of New-York, on the subject of international exchanges. 1847.
Contributors: Smith, John Lawrence, 1816-1889.; Vattemare, Alexandre, 1796-1864.
Publisher: C. Van Benthuysen, public printer
Published: 1847
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Exchanges, Literary and scientific
Notes: Signed: J. Lawrence Smith [and others]
Re-issue with t.p. of Assembly doc. 226, New York (State) Legislature, 1847, with caption title: Report of the Joint Library Committee of the Two Houses on the Subject of International Exchanges.
"Catalogue of donations received at the State Library, October, 1847 through Mons. Vattemare": p. [21]-32, repeated on p. [37]-48.
Address of M. Vattemare, delivered before the two houses of the Legislature, on the evening of the 20th Oct.--Instructions on the best mode of collecting, preserving and transporting objects of natural history. Written by the professors, administrators of the Museum of Natural History at Paris. Rev., with the addition of notes, by Aaron Young, Jr., botanist to the state of Maine.--Letter from B.P. Johnson, esq., secretary of the New-York State Agricultural Society, to M. Vattemare.--Letter from Professor E. Emmons, of the New-York State Geological Survey, to M. Vattemare.--Catalogue of the specimens sent by E. Emmons to the School of Mines with remarks.
Table of contents: title: Report.; title: An act to provide for the support of the system of international literary and scientific exchanges.; title: Communication from the governor, relative to international exchanges of scientific and literary works.; title: Letter from the secretary of state to the governor, transmitting the letter of M. Vattemare, relative to te distribution of the volumes of the natural history of this state.; title: Letter from M. Vattemare, transmitting correspondence from His Majesty the King of France, Count de Salvandy, and others.; title: Letters from the French ministers, &c.; title: Catalogue of donations received at the State Library, October, 1847, through Mons. Vattemare.; title: Report of the trustees of the State Library, as to the donations recently made to the library through M. Vattemare.