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Document marked H. contains an extended account of the whole 

 expenditures of the Fifteenth Fair and of the repository, library, &c. 

 which includes the whole expenditures of the last year. A general 

 summary of the whole receipts and expenditures for the year, with 

 the balance, are as follows, the vouchers for which, are all on file. 



The receipts and expenditures have been as follows: 



RECEIPTS. 



Amount received from sales of tickets at the Fifteenth 



Annual Fair, 1842, $6,196 75 



Amount received at Cattle Exhibition, 172 00 



Amount received at Castle Garden, being one-half the 



proceeds taken at the Nautical Exhibition, 373 00 



Amount contributed by members, 977 00 



Amount from Comptroller of the State of New- York, 



under act of May, 1841, 950 00 



Amount on hand at the date of the last Report, 217 15 



Total, |8,885 90 



EXPENDITURES. 



{For a detailed account, see statement H.) 



Fifteenth Annual Fair, 1842, $5 ,825 75 



Repository of the American Institute, 2 ,899 12 



8,724 87 



Balance on hand, $161 03 



The Anniversary Address, marked I. was delivered by the Hon. 

 H. G, O. Colby of Massachusetts, and is one among seventeen ad- 

 dresses which were delivered to crowded audiences durins the Fif- 

 teenth Fair. His subject is one of universal interest, and is discussed 

 with eminent ability. 



Since the last Fair, the Repository has been devoted two months 

 gratuitously to the exhibition of a machine, showing in much perfec- 

 tion the magnitudes, distances, and movements of the heavenly bo- 

 dies. It is called a Planetarium, or Orrery, invented by Mr. I. Rus- 

 sell of Columbus, Ohio. This has been accompanied with lectures 

 and explanations. Many thousands have attended, and examined its 

 intricate and complicated construction greatly to their satisfaction. 



