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of the State, farmers and others were invited to forward to 

 Messrs. Speakman and Say minerals, which were to be analyzed, 

 and the results published free of cost. 



Of twenty-five members elected in the course of 1814, the 

 names of ten remain on the list, as follows : 



Joseph Correct de Serra, LL.D., Caleb Richardson, 



Robert Frazer, Joseph Rotch, 



Thomas C. James, M. D., Benjamin Warner, 



Wm. Kneass, John F. Waterhouse, M. D. 

 Richard Randolph, Wm. S. Warder. 



Seventeen correspondents were elected during the year. 



At one of the meetings of this year, Dr. Waterhouse read a 

 descriptive sketch of the mineralogy of the northern and western 

 environs of Boston. During the spring, a course of popular lec- 

 tures on botany was delivered, under the auspices of the Society, 

 by Drs. Waterhouse and Barnes, in the rooms of the Agricultural 

 Society. These were the first popular lectures on botany ever 

 delivered in this city ; they were attended by more than two 

 hundred ladies, besides a considerable number of gentlemen. 

 This course was repeated in the spring of 1815, in the lecture- 

 room at the south-west corner of Arch and Fifth Streets, per- 

 taining to the Free Quakers.- For this last course tickets of 

 admission were presented to the divinity students of the Rev. 

 Dr. Staughton. 



The increase of the Museum required larger accommodations 

 than the apartments of the Academy afforded. On the 9th of 

 August, 1814, Mr. J. Gilliams proposed to build a hall for the 

 use of the Academy, on a vacant lot in the rear of his father's 

 residence, at an annual rent of two hundred dollars ; but this 

 generous offer was not accepted until April, 1815. 



The cabinet and library were moved into the new hall about 

 the end of July. The minutes of the meeting for August 1, 

 1815, are as follows : " Owing to the confusion of moving from 

 the Old Hall, in Second Street, to the New Hall, Gilliams' Court, 

 Arch Street, between Front and Second Streets, the members 

 assembled judged it most expedient not to organize the meeting 

 for this evening, and accordingly withdrew." 



The first period of the history of the Academy extends from 

 the foundation to its establishment in the new hall, erected at 

 the expense of Mr. Gilliams. 



