Sent from AMERICA to France.
| From | the Federal Government (War Department) | 15 | volumes. | |||||
| —— | — | — | — | — | —— | 12 | maps. | |
| —— | — | National Institute, Washington | 25 | volumes. | ||||
| —— | — | Legislature of the State of Maine | 94 | — | ||||
| —— | — | — — | — | — | —— | 3 | maps. | |
| —— | — | — — | — | — | —— | 1 | herbal. | |
| —— | — | — — | — | — | —— | (specimens of minerals) | 4 | cases. |
| —— | — | — — | — | — | Massachusetts | 195 | volumes. | |
| —— | — | — — | — | — | —— —— | 20 | maps. | |
| —— | — | Hon. John G. Palfrey | 23 | volumes. | ||||
| —— | — | Mercantile Library Ass'n | 1 | — | ||||
| —— | — | Hon. Josiah Quincy | 2 | — | ||||
| —— | — | M. Bowen | 20 | — | ||||
| —— | M. B. P. Poore | 10 | — | |||||
| —— | the Legislature of the State of New-York | 200 | — | |||||
| —— | — | —— | — | — | —— | 10 | maps. | |
| —— | — | Corporation of the City of New-York | 18 | volumes. | ||||
| —— | — | —— | — | — | —— | 2 | maps. | |
| —— | — | N. Y. Mercantile Library association | 2 | volumes. | ||||
| —— | — | Corporation of the city of Baltimore | 16 | — | ||||
| —— | — | —— | — | — | —— | 3 | maps. | |
| —— | — | Brantz Mayer, Esq. | 1 | volume. | ||||
| —— | — | Legislature of the State of Indiana | 512 | — | ||||
| —— | — | Hon. Henry Ledyard, Esq., of Michigan | 1 | maps. | ||||
| —— | — | Professer James C. Cross, of Kentucky | 1 | volume. | ||||
| —— | — | Government of Texas | 10 | — | ||||
| —— | — | Hon. Ashbel Smith | 3 | — | ||||
| —— | — | Prof. S. F. B. Morse of New-York | 1 | — | ||||
| —— | M. Alfred Vail of Philadelphia | 1 | — | |||||
| —— | M. Hermann E. Ludwig of New-York | 1 | — | |||||
| —— | M. Vauzand | 10 | — | |||||
(I do not mention books which I have been officially | ||||||||
| From | the Government of Canada | 60 | volumes. | |||||
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| 1,267 | objects. | |||||||
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| Recapitulation. | |
|---|---|
| 1,211 | Volumes. |
| 51 | Maps. |
| 4 | Cases of Minerals. |
| 1 | Herbal. |
Making a total amount of 4,749 objects exchanged through the Agency in the course of the past sixteen months between France and North America.—The Hon. Secretary of war, the states of Maine, Massachusetts, New-York, and Indiana with the cities of Baltimore and New-York, being the only respondents to my call, by transmitting important works and voting generous allocations to pay the necessory expenses. From these facts, all can see what the operations of the scheme have been, and judge what important results may be confidently relied upon, if the other states, corporations and institutions of the flourishing and happy Republic would but enter fully and seriously in this peaceful Intellectual Union of the two Hemispheres.
Alexandre Vattemare.
Nota. It may perhaps be well to mention that the greater part of the books I have received here for the United States have been merely stitched, be cause no appropriations are made for binding public documents. The usefulness of the scheme of international exchanges is however becoming so apparent, that I hope generous appropriations will be made this year to enable several ministerial departments and the chambers to have their documents which are destined for exchange, properly bound and lettered. I would also express an hope that means may be provided to enable me to publish a quarterly account of the movements of the scheme, giving all the transactions effected, and also serving as an organ announcing all the superfluities of intellectual riches possessed by different countries and the Legislative, scientific and useful works published by their governments and scientific bodies, which could only be procured by exchange. Such a publication would be, and I may say is the only means of securing the permanency of the system of exchanges, and remove the apprehensions of those who see its existence limited by the perseverance of my efforts.