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.