of management are authorized to purchase such works of art, executed by artists in the United States, or by American artists abroad, as they may think worthy of selection, and as the state of the treasury shall warrant. At the annual meeting of the Association, in December, the works of art purchased during the year, become by lot, publicly determined, the property of individual members, each member being entitled to one chance, or share, in such distribution, for each five dollars by him subscribed and paid.

OFFICERS.

William Cullen Bryant, President.

Andrew Warner, Recording Secretary.
Ebenezer Platt, Treasurer.

Robert F. Frazer, Corresponding Secretary and Sup't.

Committee of Management.

Established in 1828, for the convenience of members of the bar. The library consists of four thousand volumes, and is kept at the City Hall. Members are elected by ballot; fees, $20 initiation, and $10 annually. The books are not allowed to be taken out of the City Hall.

Officers elected May 2d, 1844, are as follows:

Samuel Jones, LL. D., President.

Robert Emmet, Treasurer.

John W. Edmonds, Librarian.

G. R. J. Bowdoin, Secretary.

W. H. Griswold, Acting Librarian.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. Office, library and reading-room, over Marine Court, in the Park. Or ganized January, 1828; incorporated May 2, 1829. For the purpose of encouraging and promoting domestic industry in this State and in the United States, in agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts, and any improvements made therein, by bestowing rewards and other benefits on those who shall make any such improvements, or excel in any of the said branches.

TRUSTEES.

Hon. James Tallmadge, President.

Adoniram Chandler, Wm. Inglis, and Shepherd Knapp, Vice-Pres'ts. Gurdon J. Leeds, Rec. Secretary. Edward T. Packhouse, Treasurer. T. B. Wakeman, Cor. Secretary and Superintending Agent. Annual election, second Thursday in May. Stated meetings, second Thursday in each month. Farmers' Club, first and third Tuesday in each month, at 12 o'clock, M. Conversation meetings, every Wednesday evening during winter.

This Institute has held seventeen consecutive annual Fairs, at which have been exhibited great varieties of domestic manufactures, agricultu ral and horticultural productions and implements, improved breeds of ani. mals, models of machinery, &c. Plowing matches are held also, in the

vicinity of New York. During the fair of October, 1844, it was esti mated that upwards of 150,000 persons visited the exhibitions.

The library contains about six thousand volumes, mostly works of reference for the mechanic, the manufacturer, the farmer, and the statesman; it is open, free of expense, to all strangers, and is conducted on more liberal principles than any other library in our country.

Since 1837, the receipts of the Institution have been $78,739.84, and the expenditures $76,077.79.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. Founded in 1830, and incorporated in 1833. Rooms in the basement of the City Hall, containing a library and reading-room. Open every day except Sunday, from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. Meetings are heid every fort night for scientific purposes, and during winter, lectures are given every week. The officers and members of this society are in general practical

mechanics.

OFFICERS For 1845.

Professor J. J. Mapes, President.

Clarkson Crolius,

Joseph E. Coffee,

Vice-Presidents.

Wilson Small, Treasurer.

William A. Cox, Corresponding Secretary.
James Howland, Recording Secretary.

Charles L. Barritt, Actuary.

There is also a board of twelve directors. This institution is in a flour. ishing condition, and its rooms are much resorted to by its members. The fee for admission is $1.00; annual fee, $2.00.

The MECHANICS' INSTITUTE SCHOOL, 12 Chambers-streeet is under the management of the above institution, and it numbered, in January, 1845, 266 male and female pupils.

UNITED STATES NAVAL LYCEUM.

Located at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn. Organized by the officers of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps, November, 1833. The officer in command at the Navy Yard is, ex-officio, President. Officers for 1845, as follows: Capt. S. H. Stringham, President.

Commander W. L. Hudson, Vice-President.
McKean Buchanan, Cor. Secretary.

George W. Lee, Treasurer.

Surgeon W. S. Ruschenberger, Librarian.

Geo. A. Farley, Assistant Librarian.

BROOKLYN INSTITUTE-184 Washington-street.

Augustus Graham, President.

R. G. Nichols, Secretary.

THE BROOKLYN CITY LIBRARY,

Is at the rooms of the Brooklyn Institute.
Henry C. Murphy, President.

A. J. Spooner, Secretary.

HAMILTON LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF CITY OF BROOKLYN. Rooms in the Brooklyn Institute, Washington-street.

James Campbell, President.

Wilfred Wallace, Secretary.

FRANKLIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.-Hudson.

This is a young and popular institution, to which is attached a large library and philosophical apparatus.

Robert Coffin, President.

POUGHKEEPSIE LYCEUM.

Organized March, 1838. It includes a reading-room, library, and specimens in natural history, mineralogy, and botany. Lectures on literary and scientific subjects are given during the winter months. Christian Appleton, President.

Rev. A. M. Mann, Cor. Secr'y.

Joel A. Wing, Charles Austin, and Lewis Benedict, Jr., Recording Secretaries.

OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENTS.-FIRST DEPARTMENT.

Jonathan Eights, President.

Richard V. De Witt, Cor. Sec'ry. William Mayell, Vice-President. Joel A. Wing, Rec. Secretary. Peter Bullions, Librarian.

SECOND DEPARTMENT.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, President. Charles Austin, Rec. Secretary. Richard V. De Witt, Vice-Pres. C. H. Anthony, Treasurer. T. Romeyn Beck, Lewis C. Beck, Philip Ten Eyck, Ebenezer Emmons, Curators.

THIRD DEPARTMENT.

Peter Bullions, President.
John V. L. Pruyn, Cor. Secretary.
Daniel D. Barnard, Vice-President. Lewis Benedict, Jr., Rec. Sec'ry.
Robert H. Pruyn, Treasurer.

Specimens in the Museum of the Institute, January 1, 1843, 15,506. The library of the institute contains about 3,500 volumes.

The objects of the institute are literary and scientific. At its sittings, oral discussions are held, and papers are read on topics connected with the history, biography, literature, science, and the arts of the State and the country.

YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CITY OF ALBANY.

This institution was founded December 13, 1833, and incorporated by the above title, March 12, 1835. In the language of its charter, it was incorporated "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a library, read. ing-room, literary and scientific lectures, and other means of promoting moral and intellectual improvement, with power to take by purchase, devise, or otherwise, and to hold, transfer, and convey real and personal property to the amount of $50,000; and to take, hold and convey all such books, cabinets, library, furniture, and apparatus as may be necessary for attaining its objects."

Its government is vested in an executive committee, consisting of a president, three vice-presidents, a corresponding and a recording secretary, a treasurer, and ten managers, elected annually by such members as are entitled to vote by the charter. The association has power, also, to organize from its own members a Debating Society, the officers of which are ex-officio members of the executive committee. Any resident of Albany, between 16 and 35 years old, may become a regular member, if approved

by the executive committee, and on entering, must pay a fee of $1, and afterwards of $2 annually.

The sum of $50 in money, or in books to that amount, constitutes a member for life; and $5 annually, an honorary member. The Governor, Lt. Governor of the State, and the clergy of the city, are entitled to admission to the reading-rooms and the lectures; members of the Legislature, and of other associations, and officers of the army and navy, are admitted to the reading rooms, and a member of the society may introduce a non-resident to the same privilege for a month.

From November 1st to March 1st, the charter requires at least one public lecture to be delivered at the lecture room in each week.

The annual meeting is fixed on the first Monday of February, and on the next Tuesday the annual elections are made.

At the annual meeting on the first Monday in February, 1845, the presi dent stated that 627 regular members had renewed their tickets, 380 for a part, and 247 for the whole year; 60 honorary members had subscribed for part of the year, and 117 for the whole; that the number of life memDers was 39-making the whole number 844.

The RECEIPTS during 7 months of the then current year, were $2,334.04, including the balance of $38.64 paid over by the previous treasurer; and the EXPENDITURES for the same period were $1,542.84; leaving in the hands of the treasurer a balance of $791.20.

The number of volumes drawn from the library, during same period, was 4,730 the number of volumes being 3,323; the periodicals received, 18; newspapers, 68, of which 26 are daily. The course of lectures was highly satisfactory, and involved an expense of $143.63.

The association rooms are in the Albany Exchange.

YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE CITY OF TROY.

Rooms, 197 River-street. Incorporated in 1835. This institution has a library of about two thousand volumes, and philosophical apparatus. The reading-room is furnished with periodicals and newspapers, from different parts of the Union. Lectures are occasionally given on different subjects.

YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT IN THE CITY OF SCHENECTADY.

Incorporated March 9, 1839, for the purpose of establishing and main. taining a library, reading-room, literary and scientific lectures. The li brary now contains about 3,200 volumes.

Benj. F. Potter, President.

Alexander Holland, Cor. Secretary.

William Lamy, Rec. Secretary. John Bt. Clute, Treasurer.

The executive committee consists of seventeen persons: a president, two vice-presidents, a corresponding and recording secretary, treasurer, and eleven managers, who are chosen annually on the second Wednesday in April.

YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF UTICA.

This institution was incorporated in 1834, and now consists of about 250 members. It occupies rooms in which are contained a library of 2,200 volumes; a reading-room in which are taken 43 different periodicals and newspapers, and a lecture-room in which lectures on various subjects are delivered every week from October to May, inclusive,

YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO. Incorporated March, 1837. The object of this association is to estab. lish and maintain a library, reading-rooms, and literary and scientific lectures. The library consists of about 4,000 volumes. Jabez B. Bull, President. Thos. C. Welch, Cor. Secretary. Phineas Sargent, Librarian.

BENEVOLENT & RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

(Office, 115 Nassau-street, New-York.)

This institution was formed in 1816, for the sole object of increasing the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment. It is under the direction of a board of managers, comprising Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Reformed Dutch, and Society of Friends. John C. Smith, President.

Rev. John C. Brigham, D. D., Secretary.
William Whitlock, Jr., Treasurer.

Joseph Hyde, General Agent and Treasurer.

Rev. Noah Levings, D. D., Financial Secretary.

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

(Office in Baptist Church, Broome-street, corner of Elizabeth.) This institution was founded upon the principle, that the originals in Hebrew and Greek are the only authentic standards of the Sacred Scrip. tures; and that aid for translating, printing or distributing them in foreign languages, should be afforded to such versions only as are conformed as nearly as possible to the original text.

Spencer H. Cone, President.
Elisha Tucker,

Charles G. Summers, Vice-Presidents.

Rufus Babcock, Corresponding Secretary.
Thomas Wallace, Recording Secretary.
William Colgate, Treasurer.

Ira M. Allen, Depository Agent,'&c.

AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.

(Office, Broome-street, corner of Elizabeth.)

Heman Lincoln, of Boston, President.

Benjamin M. Hill, of New-York, Cor. Secretary.

David Bellamy,

R. W. Martin,

John R. Ludlow,

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Rec. Secretary.

Treasurer.

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AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOR. MISSIONS.

(Office, Brick Church Chapel, 151 Nassau-street.)

The object of the board is to propagate the gospel among unevangelized nations and communities, by means of preachers, catechists, schoolmasters