Address hy Professor Bcddu'in. xxix 



by the author at the meetings of the Academy, and tlie main 

 results or conclusions thus communicated and discussed. 



Our tirst published volume bore, as has been said, the name of 

 Memoirs of the A(;ademy. In planning for the second volume, 

 half a century later, it was thought best to entitle it as the Transac- 

 tions of the Academy. The question then arose whether it should 

 be numbered as volume two, or volume one, and in view of this 

 change of name, as well as of the great lapse of time since the 

 earlier publication, it was concluded to make it the commence- 

 ment of an independent series. 



The exchange list of the Academy in 1810 was limited for the 

 United States to the Massachusetts Historical Society ; the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences ; the New York Agricultural 

 Society ; the New York Historical Society, and the American 

 Philosophical Society. 



Six copies of Part 1 of Volume I were also put in the hands of 

 Dr. Noah "Webster, to be transmitted by him to such foreign 

 societies or libraries as he might think proper to select. At pres- 

 ent our Transactions are exchanged for those of nearly a hundred 

 learned societies in this country, and of more than twice as many 

 in foreign countries.* 



A valuable library has thus been accumulated, which is depos- 

 ited for convenience, and under an arrangement which contemplates 

 its remaining there permanently, in the library of Yale University, 

 the head of which is also the librarian of the Academy. 



The Academy now assembles monthly in the Faculty room on 

 the iirst floor of Sheffield Hall, its last meeting being its seven 

 hundred and eighty-sixth. 



Its ordinary course of business does not differ materially from 

 that which I have described as pursued half a century ago. Some 

 topic previously announced is presented, either by a written 

 paper, or an oral explanation, and opportunity is then given for a 

 general discussion. 



In this way, independently of what has been accomplished by 

 its publications, the Academy has been of substantial service for a 

 hundred 3'ears to the College and to the city, particularly, but 

 often to the State and to the country, as well. 



* About 325. 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XI. 



