Report of the Librarian.

A report given at the annual meeting held in Worcester of gifts and purchases of books for the society's collections. Among a total of 2,897 titles, 281 of which were printed before 1821, 66 of these were not recorded in bibliographies. The outstanding acquisition of the year was a 1786 edition of Daniel Boone's adventures. Books acquired also included other frontier narratives, almanacs, children's books, cookbooks, directories, newspapers, state documents, works of fiction, and additions to the Louisiana materials, including some Henri Remy manuscripts and a photostatic copy of the memoirs of Pierre Clement Laussat. Rare pamphlets and broadsides collected included an 1831 edition of a report on the Nat Turner insurrection in Virginia.