UNITED STATES 99 



Publications. 



Bulletin, no. 1-3. 



Contents: [no. i] : Constitution (?). no. 2: The Muir Glacier, Alaska, by 

 G. F. Wright. Philadelphia, 1889 (?). 8. no. 3: Ethnographical memo- 

 randa concerning the Arctic Eskimo in Alaska and Siberia. Rev. and ed. 

 by S. Jackson. 1890. 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society. 



Address. 176 State Street, Albany, N. Y. Curator and Librarian : Cuyler 

 Reynolds. 



History. Founded at New York in 1791 and incorporated in 1793 as the 

 Society instituted in the State of New York for the Promotion of Agri- 

 culture, Arts, and Manufactures. Removed to Albany about 1798 and 

 reincorporated in 1804 as the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts. 

 United in 1824 with the Albany Lyceum of Natural History (founded 

 in 1823), and named Albany Institute; incorporated in 1829. Consoli- 

 dated under new act of incorporation in 1900 with the Albany Historical 

 and Art Society (founded in 1886), assuming at that time the present 

 title. 



Object. The promotion of science and learning. 

 Meetings. Annually, 2d Monday in May. 



Membership. 610 resident (annual dues, $5; life membership, $100) ; 8 non-resident; 

 12 honorary. 



Publications. 



Transactions of the Society for the promotion of useful arts. v. [i]-4. 

 New York, 1792-94; Albany, 1798-1819. 8. 



Title varies with name of society. 



v. I in 4 pts., 1792-99; v. 4 in 2 pts., 1816-19. 



v. i, 2d ed. rev. Albany, 1801. 8. 



ist annual report of the Albany institute. Presented July I, 1825. 

 [Albany, 1825.] 8. 



Pamphlet, 8 p., caption-title. 

 Transactions of the Albany institute, v. 1-12. Albany, 1830-93. 8'. 



Catalogues of the library in v. I, appendix, and v. 3. 



v. 4 and 6 contain the Proceedings, 1858/63-1863/65, after which they were 



issued separately. 

 No more published. 



Proceedings of the Albany institute, v. I-III, pt. 1-2, 1865/72-1877/82. 

 Albany, 1873-82. 8. 

 No more published. 



