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Dr. Teschendorf succeeded in obtainingthe original, which 

 in October, 1859, he placed in the hands of the Czar. Its 

 great value being at once appreciated, the emperor ordered 

 it to be printed in fac-simile for distribution among public 

 libraries. 



Dr. Townsend exhibited a copy, in common Greek type, 

 of the JSTew Testament portion, and also copies of the 

 Alexandrian and Vatican Codices, giving a concise ac- 

 count of the origin, custody, and publication of these 

 venerable manuscripts, the first of which is in the British 

 Museum, and the latter in the Vatican Library at Rome. 

 He also laid before the Institute an ancient manuscript 

 belonging to his library, an illuminated volume illustrat- 

 ing palaeographic subjects, and some specimens of parch- 

 ment paper prepared by a chemical process, and closely 

 resembling true vellum. 



The thanks of the Institute were voted to Dr. Townsend 

 for his able and interesting paper. 



A committee, consisting of Mr. Hough, Mr. Munsell and 

 Dr. Mosher, was appointed to make examination of 

 certain packages of the Transactions of the Institute in 

 sheets, and to report such action as might be thought 

 advisable concerning them. 



Upon motion of Dr. Townsend, the committee of pub- 

 lication was authorized to exercise a censorship of the 

 published proceedings of the Institute, with the view of 

 preventing errors in the insertion of matter not properly 

 within their province for publication. 



Mr. Eugene Van Rensselaer was proposed and elected a 

 resident member of the Institute. 



Prof. Hall called the attention of the members present to 

 the report on the condition of the State Cabinet now first 

 printed, in the appendix of which he had figured and de- 

 scribed ten new species of fossil plants of the genus Dicti/o- 

 phyton. He made some remarks on the habits of the 



