402 [Assembly 



On motion, the subject of: " Lime and salt as manure — Alkalies 

 as washes for trees — and the best planTor constructing country 

 houses, barns, stables, &c., were adopted for the next meeting. 



The club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Present — Mr. President Pell, Professor J. J. Mapes, of Jersey, 

 Hon. R. S. Livingston, Chester Coleman of Brooklyn, Mr. You- 

 mans of California, Mr. Grifling of Jersey, Mr. Darracott of Bos- 

 ton, Mr. Vail, Mr, Ferguson of Fergusonville, Delaware county. 

 Dr. Waterbury, Mr. Low, Dr. Church, Paul Stillman, Mr, Par- 

 dee, Mr, French from the New Jersey Phalanx, Dr. Newton, Mr, 

 Toucey, Mr. Chilson, Mr. Leigh, and others — in all 51 members. 



The Secretary read the following papers prepared by him : 



As we love to know the origin of all things, I give the follow- 

 ing on Man's house building — 



HOUSES AND FARM BUILDINGS. 



Architecture, from the Greek apx'^; beginning or original; tsxtuv^ 

 builder or building ; a house made by certain rules suggested by 

 nature and man's taste or opinion. When wealth comes then 

 comes the high art. Notwithstanding the great lapse of time 

 since the first buildings were made by man, we find three dis- 

 tinct conditions of men, each of which influenced his buildings 

 at the period, and each of which has become a model of its kind. 

 The first lived as hunters and used caves, and in some cases 

 where they could, hollow places in the hill and mountain sides. 

 Second condition, pastoral ^ stock rambling for feed. This was 

 the period of tents, because they must of necessity be portable 

 in order to keep on the travel for natural pasture. With agricul- 

 ture came the domus, a place to sleep and to delay in, a house 

 with its sloping roof to carry off rain, A long time elapsed be- 

 fore man put a second story on the feeble cottages of one story„ 

 We have commenced in our country with green logs, notched at 



