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-ed a better one.

The farmer and the gardener will at once see the importance of having collected within our state all works relating to Agriculture and Horticulture. How valuable to them would be a ready access (for instance) to works on entomology in which are described the insects that are so destructive to the products of their toil.

Without such a library the professors in our University and Colleges are in danger of teaching science that is behind the age. New truths and new principles are now so rapidly ascertained and established that he who assumes to teach them should also devote a considerable portion of his time to study. His meagre salary will hardly enable him to supply himself with all the new books needed for this purpose.

It is to be hoped therefore, that some one will be found who has sufficient regard for the future welfare of our people to establish and provide for the maintenance of a library of the character indicated.

Yours truly,

I.A. Lapham.