ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

We have to express our thanks to various friends for their thoughtful kindness in forwarding us copies of reports, and among them are the following:

Annual reports of the Officers of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum for 1852.

Twentieth Annual Report of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, Mass. for 1852.

Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane for the year 1852.

Tenth Annual Report of the State Lunatic Asylum of the State of New York, 1852.

Annual Report of the State Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg, Penn.

Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Inspectors of the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, 1852.

Report of the Inspectors of the Western State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania for 1852.

Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 1852.

Twentieth Annual Report of the Managers of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind for 1852.

Report of the State Prison of New Jersey for 1852.

Sixth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Reform School at Westborough, Mass.

Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society of Boston, 1851-2.

Act of Incorporation, By-Laws, &c., of New York Juvenile Asylum.

Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Managers of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents of New York, 1852.

Annual Report of Board of Managers of Philadelphia Charity Schools, 1852.

Report of Managers of the Magdalen Society for 1852.

Annual Report of the Managers of the Boston Asylum and Farm School for 1852.

Eight Report of the Baltimore Manual Labor School for Indigent Boys for 1852.

Report of Commissioners on the State Reform School of Pennsylvania.