The names of the Librarians, and the time of service of each, from the first Establishment of the Library, to the first of July, 1829. July 1, 1835-Since the first formation of the Company, 104 YEARS. *The Instrument of Association, signed by thirty-eight Members, was dated July 1, 1731. The first meeting of the Directors, therein appointed, was held on the eighth day of November following. The first importation of Books from London, amounting to £45 sterling, arrived the last of October, 1732, and on the fourteenth of the next ensuing month Louis Timothée, the first Librarian, was appointed, and the Library thereupon opened in a chamber of Robert Grace's house, in Pewter-platter Alley, now called Jones's Alley. On the seventh of April, 1740, the Library was removed from thence to the western wing of the State-house. In August, 1773, it was transferred to the Carpenters' Hall, and in October, 1790, it was placed in the present building. At this time the Union Library (into which the Amicable and Association Libraries had previously merged) was incorporated with this Company, and John De Mauregnault, Librarian of the former, and Ludowic Sprogle, Librarian of the latter Company, jointly performed the duties of that station, until the first of May, 1770, when Ludowic Sprogle resigned. Treatises on Toleration, Apocryphal Books, Scripture Histories, Dictionaries, Concordances and Harmonies, Criticism, Interpretation of and Commentaries on the Scriptures, Treatises on the Truth and Evidences of Revealed Religion, Creeds, Catechisms, Liturgies and Treatises thereon, Collections of Prayers, Metrical versions of the Psalms: Hymns, Ancient and Modern Theologians, Doctrinal, Practical, Controversial and Miscellaneous Divinity, Sermons, Pastoral Letters and Charges, Jewish Antiquities, History, Customs, &c. Ecclesiastical History, Constitutional and Municipal Law 8 The United States, Foreign: British, 9 Continental Europe, Asia, 11 Criminal and Penal Law, Police, Prisons, and Prison Discipline, Physiognomy and Phrenology, 114 Occult Philosophy, Alchemy, As116 trology, Demonology, &c. 1 Common, Chancery, Commercial and Mercantile Law, 143 150 153 156 157 16 158 187 188 Lives of Saints, Martyrologies, Bible, Missionary, and other Societies, Ethical Treatises on the Passions, Virtues, Vices, Happiness, &c. 201 Education, Elementary Works for Youth, &c. 206 CLASS II.—Jurisprudence. Trade, Commerce, Weights and Slavery and the Slave Trade, Hospitals, Dispensaries, and Poor Natural Philosophy, General Trea- Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, Natural History, General works, Geology, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Treatises on Horses, Cattle, Sheep, 394 276 Treatises on Silk Worms and Bees, 397 Mineralogy, Metals, Mines, Fossils, 280 Treatises on Cookery, &c. 398 283 Treatises on Warming, Lighting, 399 400 |