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��THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

��es, sermons, dircourses, orations, poems and occasional publications whatsoever, delivered within or relating to New Hampshire, her affairs or people.

6. Files of all newspapers or other pe- riodicals that are or have been published within the State.

7. Works of every kind that have been written or published by New Hampshire men and women, "wherever dispersed around the whole orb of the earth."

8. Works of every kind, whenever or by whomsoever written, that have issued from the printing-presses of New Hamp- shire.

9. The publications of Historical, Genealogical, Antiquarian and other learned Societies.

10. Books of the early age of printing in Europe, particularly those issued pre- vious to the year 1600.

In addition to the above enumerated classes, to the collection of which the Society directs special attention, it en- deavors also to obtain one copy of every edition of all books and pamphlets, no matter by whom written, in what coun- try or language they are printed, or to what subject they relate.

The arrangement of the books and pamphlets composing the library is very simple. With the exception of works re- lating to local and personal history, and works relatir.g to or emanating from the Legislature of New Hampshire, no at- tempt is made to classify the library. With a view to the greatest economy of space, the books are located Solely ac- cording to size; except that different edi- tions of the same work, (as Adams's Arith- metic, or Morse's Geography,) are plac- ed together. To find anything in the Li- brary the sole dependence is upon the Catalogue. Each case for books is let- tered, (running at present from A to K), and each shelf of each case is numbered. Then the volumes are numbered, com- mencing with the first book on shelf 1 of case A, which would be No. 1, and car- rying the numbers through consecutive- ly from case to case; that is, if the last number in case A was 485 the first num- ber in case B would be 486. If, then, I want to find, for example, De Miranda's

��Expedition, I will find it under M and S, thus :

595. B. 3. Miranda, Don Francisco de. Attempt to effect a Revolution in South America. 12mo., hf. shp., pp. 308. Boston, 1807. 595. B. 3. South America. Don Fran- cisco de Miranda's Attempt to effect a Revolution in. 12 mo., hf. shp., pp. 308. Boston, 1807.

The Society uses especial endeavors to obtain pamphlets, that species of litera- ture considered so worthless by the un- instructecl, and so valuable by all libra- rians and writers of history. These are put up in linen covers called "jackets," and are classified partly by their charac- ter and partly by their size. These jack- ets are labeled on the back, and when filled set upon the shelf like volumes. The different classes are

1. Those according to character, as Maine Pamphlets, New Hampshire Pamph- lets, (and so of all the New England States,) Political Pamphlets, Magazines and Reviews (odd numbers), etc.

2. Those according to size, as Pamph- lets lettered A, B, C, etc. ; Pamphlets, numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. ; Small Pamphlets, Large Pamphlets, Quarto Pamphlets, etc.

Of these volumes of pamphlets the So- ciety has now, of all kinds, about 500. Each pamphlet is catalogued by author, by subject, and frequently by title. Some are entered five times to increase the fa- cility of finding them. If, then, I was in pursuit of Dr. Spalding's Discourse on the 250th Anniversary of the Settlement of Dover, I would find it under D and S, thus : Dover, N. H., Dr. Geo. B. Spalding's

Discourse on the 250th Anniversary of

the Settlement of, 1873. N. H. P. 25. Spalding, Geo. B., Discourse on the

250th Anniversary of the Settlement

of Dover, N. H., 1873. N. H. P. 25.

On the margin of the cover would be marked N. H. P. 25, so that should the pamphlet be taken out for use, or by any accident be left out, it would show on it- self where it belonged.

II. The work of the Historical Com- mittee.

Section 2 of Article IX, of the amend- ed Constitution of the Society declares

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