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showing an increase in the receipts of the year, of over five thousand 

 dollars. ^ 



When it is considered that four out of five of the entries at our 

 fairs are free, this being the estimate, arising from the large number 

 of members and exhibitors with their families, also delegates from 

 an immense number of societies, literary and scientific, with distin- 

 guished individuals from all parts of the country who are admitted 

 free, and the price of admission is only 25 cents, it shows that the 

 public interest taken in this institution has no parallel in our coun- 

 try. 



For about three weeks the place of exhibition is the centre of at- 

 traction for this city, the neighboring cities, and throughout our 

 country, to distances almost incredible; crowds are continually flock- 

 ing here to witness the grand display, which embraces the products 

 of all occupations and the whole industrial community. 



We could present many other evidences than those of its money 

 results, of the advancing prosperity of the Institute in the opera- 

 tions of the last year. Three hundred and five volumes have been 

 added to our library, besides a great number of unbound documents, 

 pamphlets, charts, maps, &c. More than one-half of these are volun- 

 tary contributions, a great part of which are eminently valuable 

 works on agriculture, presented in accordance with Vattemare's cele- 

 brated plan of international exchanges; the donors of which are the 

 Royal Society of Agriculture, the Minister of Commerce and Agri- 

 culture, The Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, 

 Baron Schanenberg, &c. To promote the laudable objects of these 

 exchanges, the following circular has been issued : 



Vattemare International Exchanges. 



Jfew-York, December 6, 1847. 



The American Institute, in continuation of the system of exchanges 

 so advantageously commenced, and now conducted by the Hon. 

 Alexander Vattemare, of Paris, invite contributions of American 

 works, in print, (or in manuscript prepared for the printer,) on sub- 

 jects connected with the objects of the Institute, viz: "Agriculture, 

 commerce, manufactures and the arts." Since a separate and more 

 extensive arrangement is maturing, for the collection of machinery, 

 models, plans and specimens of the useful arts, the present appeal is 

 more especially made for literary productions, on the above subjects. 



