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Association their extensive cabinet of curiosities, containing about two thousand rare and valuable specimens."" The association was officially incorporated in 1845.
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Benjamin. Infatuation: a poem, spoken before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, October 9, 1844. W. D. Ticknor and company, 1844.
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