6 THAJVSACTIOXS OF THE AjFERICAN INSTITUTE. 



January, 1870 32 



February, " 34 



Total 479 



The following is the number of members belonging to the Insti- 

 tute : 



Honorary members 85 



Corresponding members 248 



Life members 1 5 272 



Less deceased " 246 



1,026 



Annual members 1 j 696 



Total 3,055 



The committee would respectfully suggest the propriety of each 

 member who indorses candidates to make it convenient to accompany 

 them to the rooms of the Institute at the next meeting after their 

 election, and introduce them to the officers and. others present, and 

 thereby give them welcome. 



All of which is submitted. 



CHAELES E. BITED, 

 JAMES II. DEAKE, 

 JOHK W. CHAMBEES, 

 J. OWEN EOUSE, 

 S. E. KEOM, 



Committee. 

 Kew Yoek, February 3, 1870. 



AGEICULTUEE. 



The Committee on Agriculture report, that their official duties 

 have been confined to, and connected with the Farmer's Club, which 

 continues to be crowded each week with an interested audience, and 

 its usefulness is acknowledged in thousands of letters received from 

 every State and territory of our country. During the year many 

 valuable and interesting papers have been read upon particular 

 subjects connected with stock raising, agriculture and fruit growing, 

 by Dr. J. Y. C. Smith, Prof. J. A. Whitney, J. B. Lyman, Esq., 

 Dr. F. M. Ilexamer, A. S. Fuller, Esq., Prof. Ilorsford, of Cambridge, 



