Reports of Committees. 7 



Dr. Lemercier of Paris and others ; and to the press of the city, miicli 

 is due for their elaborate reports of the transactions of the club. 

 Durino^ the year, committees from the club have visited various places 

 in our own State, Connecticut, ISTew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 

 South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and much valuable information 

 has been obtained as to soils, crops, fruits and other matters of great 

 importance to agriculturists. In no case has the treasury of the 

 American Institute been called upon to pay one cent for expenses 

 incurred by any of these committees. 



As the doings of the Farmer's Club are published in the Trans- 

 actions of the American Institute, at considerable length, your 

 committee do not deem it important to extend this report. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



NATHAN C. ELY, 

 P. T. QUINN, 

 JOHN CKANE, 

 JOSIAH H. MACY, 

 SEKENO EDAYARDS TODD, 



Committee. 

 New York, February 3c?, 1870. 



MANUFACTURES AND MACHINERY. 



The Committee on Manufactures and Machinery respectfully 

 submit the following report : 



Your committee has for several years past confined its attention to 

 the successful working of the Polytechnic Association. No subjects 

 liave been specially referred to the committee by the Institute, and 

 as we believe it generally impracticable, with the limited time and 

 facilities for investigation at the disposal of such a committee, to give 

 absolutely reliable and authoritative reports on new inventions or the 

 like, such as should go abroad, with the name and prestige of the 

 American Institute, we believe it impolitic for the Institute to refer 

 matters to this committee, except there shall exist some very unusual 

 reason for such an investigation. 



The Polytechnic Association has increased in interest and in the 

 numbers attending. The room has been filled on nearly every 

 meeting. The meetings have been kept up every Thursday evening, 

 with the exception of the usual recess during the summer months,. 



