THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



President : 



Honourable STKPHKN VAN RENSSKLAER 

 Vice-Presidents : 



His Excellency Gov. Marcy, Albany. 

 Hon. Albert Gallatin, New York, 

 n. Reuben H. Walworta, N. Y. 

 . Rev. Bern. T. Onderdonk, N. Y. 

 N. H. 

 R.I 



i. Franklin Pierce, 

 I .. .incis Wayland, D.D., 

 Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, N. J. 

 Hon. Samuel L. Southard, 

 Hon. Robert C. Greer, 

 HJII. Roger B. Taney, 

 Hon Windhain Robertson, 

 Hon. William C. Rives, 

 General James Hamilton, 

 Fon. Henry Hitchcock, 

 J jn. Alexander Porter, 



hon. Felix Grundy 



N. J 

 Penn. 

 Md. 

 Va. 

 Va. 

 S. C. 

 Ala. 

 La. 

 Tenn. 



Rt. Rev, Charles P. M'llvaine, Ohio 

 His Excellency Gov. Duncan, 111 



Henry R. Schoolcraft, Esq., Mich. 



Board of Directors: 



His Ex. Gov. Everett, LL.D., Mass. 

 Hon. Dan. Webster, LL.D., Boston. 

 James Milnor, D.D., New- York. 

 His Excellency Gov. Dunlap, Me. 

 Hon. Ruel Williams, Me. 



Hon. Horace Everett, Vt. 



Hon. Roger M. Sherman, Conn. 

 Hon. Horace Binney, LL.D., Penn. 

 Hon. James Bayard, 

 Thomas Sewall, M D., 

 Hon. William Gaston, 

 Hon. John M. Berrien, 

 Hon. Robert J. Walker, 

 Hon. Thomas J. Lacy, 

 Hon. Henry Clay, LL.D., 

 John C. Young, D.D., 

 Hon William Hendricks, 

 Hon. Lewis F. Linn, 



Del. 

 B.C. 



N. C. 

 Geo. 



Miss. 

 Ark. 



Ind. 

 Mo. 



Charles Butler, Esq., 



Hiram Ketchum, Esq., 



James Brown, Esq., 



Frederic A. Tracy, Esq., 



Eleazer Lord, Esq., 



Thomas Cock, M D., 



John T, Gilchrist, Rsq., 



Samuel W. Seton, Esq., 



Isaac Collins, Esq., Pennsylvania. 



Executive Committee; 

 JAMKS BROWN, Esq., New. York, Chairman. 



Timothy R. Green, Esq., 

 George S. Rohbins, Esq., 

 Cornelius Baker, Rsq., N. Y, 



John Griscom, LL.D., " 



Anthony P. Halsey, Esq 

 Robert Kelly, Esq., 

 Isaac S. Loyd, Esq., Pennsylvania, 

 Thomas J. Wharton, Esq., 



John Torrey, M.D., Med. Coll., N. Y. 

 Al )nzio Potter, D D., [J. Col., " 

 Wilbur Fisk, D.D., Wes. Uni., Conn. 

 Rev. Jacob Abbott, Boston. 



Rev. Bela B. Edwards, " 



Rev. Leonard Bacon, New-Haven. 

 Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, 



Ohio. 



Charles Butler, Esq., New-York. 



GORHAM D. ABBOTT, Secretary. 

 ANTHONY P. HALSEY, Treasurer 



Thpmas Cock, M.D., New- York. 

 Lewis C. Beck, NY. University, " 

 William Cooper, Lye. Nat. Hist., " 

 John T.. Gilchrist, Esq , " 



Timothy R. Green, Esq., 



Marinus Willett, M.D., * 



William Betts, Esq., 



Henry E. Davies, Esq., * 



