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George had left, having heard of it just as he was about 

 to retire. 



Prof. Anthony mentioned an amusing incident which 

 occurred totwo of the professors of the Institute, who while 

 on a mineralogical expedition, chipping some ape ;imens 

 from the high rock at Saratoga, were Bel upon as vandals 

 by an officer and his posse. One who was light escaped 

 by running, while the other who was too heavy thus 

 to Bucceed, managed to become mixed up with the pur- 

 suers and assisted them in their shouts of tl stop him," and 

 efforts to make a capture. 



Prof. Anthony paid a warm tribute to the usefulness of 

 the Rensselaer Institute, now devoted especially to civil 

 engineering. 



Dr. Willard Btated that he had in course of preparation 

 a volume consisting of biographical memoirs of the de- 

 ceased members of the Medical Society of the County of 

 Albany, from 1806. He read a sketch of Dr. Wilhelmus 

 Manc'ius, whose name was first on the list. The original 

 nembers ofthe society were : Wilhelmus Mancius, Bunloke 

 Woodruff, William McClelland, John G. Knauff, Caleb 

 Gauff, Augustus Harris, Joseph W. Eegeman, Cornelius 

 Vrooman, Jr., Alexander G. Fonda, Charles G. Townsend 

 and Elias Willard. Dr. Mancius was the son of a Dutch 

 clergyman, and was bom in Ulster county, in 1738. Ee 

 practiced his profession for many years in Albany, and 



died in 1SOS. at the age of seventy. 



The second sketch was thai of Dr. Eunloke Woodruff, 

 who was bom in Xew Jersey, in 1 7~>~». He was an accom- 

 plished Bcholar, gentleman and physician, and Berved as 

 surgeon in the Third New York regiment, commanded by 

 Col. 1* Dsevoortof Albany, during the revolutionary 



war. After the war, he resided iii Albany, where he was 

 a leading surgeon, lie died in 1811, at the age of fifty-six 

 years. 



