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and by professional men, capable of analyzing the gases, if any there 

 are, to ascertain correctly whether they are injurious or not. 



Mr. Ellsworth remarked that where coal was not used, the same 

 bad effects were observed. 



Dr. Lee, again, believed that the injuries were originated by the 

 burning of the clay itself, and that only particular clays contained 

 these noxious properties. 



On motion, the convention adjourned to meet again a week hence, 

 the 19th; so lengthened, a hiatus being deemed desirable on many 

 accounts. 



THIRD DAY. 



Tuesday, October 19. 



The convention met pursuant to adjournment, Col. Clark in the 

 chair. • , 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Mr. "Wakeraan then recommended, that Mr. Erastus Ellsworth, of 

 Connecticut, who had just arrived, should be placed on the Commit' 

 tee on industrial protection appointed at a previous meeting of the 

 Convention. [Mr. Ellsworth's name will be found on that commit- 

 tee in the report of the second day's proceedings, in conjunction with 

 Messrs. Chandler, Bacon, Williams and Bull.] 



Mr. Ellsworth expressed his willingness to do all in his power to 

 forward this important object, and ail the interests of the American 

 Institute. He had been privileged to stand by the side of Mr. Wake- 

 man at the organization of this institution^ and had now come to de- 

 vote a week to it. We have, said Mr. E., recently established an 

 institution at Hartford, entitled, the " Repository of Arts," to co- 

 operate with the American Institute, and founded on much the same 

 principles — resulting from the efforts of the leading members of the 

 Hartford county Agricultural society. Mr. Ellsworth proceeded at 

 length, to give a sketch of the objects and benefits which will inev- 

 itably accrue from the establishment of such an institution in the 

 land of steady habits. He read some extracts from the well- written 

 circular of the institution, giving a clear idea of the whole matter, 

 as follows: 



