Record of the proceedings of the Massachusetts Scientific Library Association : proprietors of the third social library in the city of Boston, 1826 Jan. 6-1827 March 17.

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Massachusetts Scientific Library Association. Record of the proceedings of the Massachusetts Scientific Library Association : proprietors of the third social library in the city of Boston, 1826 Jan. 6-1827 March 17.

Record of the proceedings of the Massachusetts Scientific Library Association : proprietors of the third social library in the city of Boston, 1826 Jan. 6-1827 March 17.

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Minutes of meetings, which were held in the room of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Boston Athenaeum on Pearl Street. The Association collected science books, with a preference for books on "mechanics and their various applications, particularly in civil engineering in the construction of roads and canals and the application of steam, water and wind to machinery - and to those on commerce, political economy and statistics ... history and literature generally to be excluded." The Association dissolved upon merging with the Boston Athenaeum in March 1827.

1 v. (18 p.) ; 33 cm.

Boston Athenaeum