tutions. In this connection we would not omit to mention the names of Nathaniel G. Snelling, Manager of the Boston Clearinghouse, and Wm. A. Camp, Manager of the Clearing-house in New York, for information and other assistance rendered by them in the preparation of this part of the work. Important assistance was rendered by W. D. Snow, Secretary of the American Loan and Trust Company, and by L. K. McKinney, Trust Clerk of the same Company, in preparing Part IV. relating to Loan and Trust Companies.

I trust that the work will prove useful. That it may be improved in future editions, criticisms, facts and suggestions are solicited from every intelligent source.

PHILADELPHIA, October 31st, 1884.

ALBERT S. BOLLES.