Waring."  This  is  a  volume,  exhibiting,  by  elegant  colored
iHuBtrations,  accompanied  by  explanatory  essays,  the  most  rare
and  precious  works  of  art  which  were  contained  in  the  immense
collection  exhibited  at  Manchester.  It  is  in  folio ;  and  as
respects  paper,  printing.  Illustration  and  binding,  it  is  a  most
finished  specimen  of  the  bookmaker's  art.  It  was  the  gift  of
our  fellow  citizen,  Alexander  Duncan,  Esq.
From  the  same  gentleman  have  also  been  received  the  Re-
ports of  the  Registrar  General,  of  Births,  Deaths  and  Mar-
riages in  England,  for  the  years  1850  to  1858  inclusive,  (9
volumes  octavo,)  comprising  the  Reports  from  the  Thirteenth
to  the  Twenty-first.  The  volumes  containing  the  twelve
previous  Reports  had  been  already  presented  by  him.
These  gifts  were  received  and  acknowledged  by  the  Board,
in  the  manner  described  in  the  following  extract  from  their
Secords  of  January  7th,  1861,  viz :

"The  following  letter  from  the  President  of  the  Board  is  read.**

Providence,  Jan.  7,  1861.
Gbktlxh£N  :

At  the  request  of  Alexander  Duncan,  Esq.,  I  place  in
your  possession —

"The  Art  Treasures  of  the  United  Kingdom,"

London  Edition,  1858.
A  gift  from  him  to  the  Athenseum.
It  is  the  moflt  beautiful  single  book  among  the  many  choice  works
which  the  Athenseum  contains.
Had  he  not  made  me  his  agent  in  transmitting  this  splendid  pres^
cnt,  I  shoald  give  utterance  to  warm  expressions  of  the  obligations
of  the  Institution  to  him  for  his  noble  liberality  to  it,  often  repeated,
and  for  this  new  exercise  of  it.
Respectfully  Yours,

WILLIAM  S.  PATTEN.
To  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Athenffiom,  Providence,  B.  I.
