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consiq.nily and so poured inlo the building. Many large representatives 

 from the country sat without their coats, while the insides of the windows 

 of the hall of representatives were covered an inch thick with ice, formed 

 of the moisture of the air in the hall, by the external cold. 



The Chairman asked Mr. Johnson to take the chair while he took the 

 floor, and illustrated on the blackboard his views of the system of heat and 

 air, as easily executed in small buildings by means of double walls and 

 roof. That the lighting of buildings should be made, if possible, to operate 

 like daylight, so that in assemblies the play of countenance may be seen, 

 which cannot be when light comes from several different quarters at once. 



Mr. Maine recommends summer ventilation of churches by means of a 

 chimney with a furnace, and numerous pipes from all parts of the building 

 connecting with the chimney. 



Mr. Disturnell. — The whole difficulty in ventilation is in the smallness 

 of our rooms. 



Mr. Maine. — No matter how large the room, if it be close there can be 

 no ventilation or comfort in it. 



Mr. Seeley remarked further on the Faraday Burner, and moved that 

 this same subject be continued at next meeting. 



The Club then adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



November 24, 1858. 



Present — Messrs, Butler, Leonard, Veeder, Seeley, and others. 



John P. Veeder in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary remarked that the Club is organized not only for discovery 

 and improvement of all useful works in the vast round of mechanism, but 

 also in all the fine arts, which of necessity includes the Art of Design. 



I believe it will be useful for us to keep before our eyes all that has been 

 done in this delightful department of human genius, and to avail ourselves 

 of all in them which is desirable, as so many steps towards the perfection 

 of the Art of Design. With this view let us look back to the beginning, 

 for at certain periods the art has found glorious adepts long ago. 



The Romans held the painter and sculptor in great esteem and honor at 

 the earliest time. Of the illustrious family of the Fabii, whose ancestors 

 were famous for fine crops of the best beans, there arose an artist, Fabius 

 Pictor, (Fabius the painter) in the year 450, ab urbe condita. His pic- 

 tures were so much admired that some of them were placed for safe keep- 

 ing and public exhibition in the sixth quarter of the city of Rome, in a 

 temple, where they were exhibited until the temple was burned in the 

 reign of the Emperor Claudius, several hundred years. 



The next artist of great distinction was also a distinguished poet. 

 Pacuvius, who painted the Temple of Hercules in the cattle market in the 

 eighth quarter of the city of Rome. It was called the Temple of Her- 

 cules Victor. It was a small round building, Pacuvius was a nephew of 

 Ennius, of ancient celebrity. The glory he gained by his pencil was greatly 

 ncreased by his highly successful dramas, Antisteus Labeon, who was 



