18 MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



ESSAYS. 



There has heen but one Essay submitted to your Committee for 

 their examination ; and after a careful examination thereof, although 

 there are some excellent ideas and principles expressed therein, worthy 

 of adoption, your Committee have come to the decision that said Essay 

 is not of that high order of merit which entitles it to a premium. 

 For the Committee, 



NATH'L WOOD, Chairman. 



MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 



The Committee on Mechanics and Manufactures have performed the 

 duty assigned them, and submit the following as their report ; 



The number of contributors in this department was unusually large 

 this year, and the sum placed at the disposal of the Committee being 

 the same as that of the two past years, our awai'ds in some instances 

 are not as we would like to have them, and the Committee would 

 recommend that a larger sum be appropriated for this department in 

 future. 



Your Conunittee have awarded as follows : 



Sylvanus Sawyer, centre punch, dividers and jack screw, 3 00 



Foster & Coggshall, improved furnace, 3 00 



J. H. Fairbanks, hardware and cutlery, 1 00 



Weston & Place, reeds and harness, 1 00 



Munroe, apple parer and Qgg beater, 2 00 



S. C. Wright & Co., one engine lathe, 3 00 

 Putnam Machine Co., air-drill, machine work, forging, 



and tools, 7 00 



B. F. Proctor, specimens of wood turning, 1 00 



Joseph Peirce, 2d, specimens of curried leather, 2 00 



Wright, Woodward & Co., hardware and tools, 1 00 

 Spalding & Pratt, machines for cutting meat and vegetables, 2 00 



M. J. Morse, furniture, coffins and caskets, 1 00 



William Briggs, rocking chair and brackets, 2 00 



J. F. Stiles, sewing machines, 1 00 



Hartwell & Reed, marble work, 2 00 



Simeon Fuller, portable organs and melodeons, 1 00 



O. Collester, piano and melodeon, 1 00 



Starkey & Fuller, a fine variety of brackets, 3 00 



