2 TbAXS ACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



been expended bj the Institnte for sncli a purpose. This bold under- 

 taking was looked upon by many with distrust, since no previous 

 attractions had been potent enough to draw large crowds continuously 

 to that point. Yet the result confirmed the foresight and judgment 

 of the managers. The gross receipts of their undertaking amounted 

 to more than sixty-one thousand dollars, and the net proceeds, includ" 

 ing the'Sum expended for buildings and materials to be used for the 

 exhibition of 1870, exceeded, by several thousand dollars, the proiits 

 of the successful preceding fair. 



To the energy, watchfulness and self-devotion of a majority of the 

 present Board of Managers, and to the good taste and executive 

 ability of the officers of the National Association of "Wool Manufac- 

 turers, the institution is chiefly indebted for the most complete and 

 satisfactory display of American productions ever made, and for its 

 financial success. 



Reports from the several standing committees will show that all 

 the other departments of the Institute have evinced commendable 

 activity during the past year. Unabated interest has been kept up 

 in the weekly proceedings of the Farmer's Club and the Polytechnic 

 Association, as well as in the monthly meetings of the Photographical 

 Section. 



Large additions of valuable scientific works have recently been 

 made to the library, w'hicli now occupies nearly all the avail- 

 able space in the rooms at present occupied by the Institute. The 

 most certain and gratifying evidence of the increasing influence of our 

 organization, is formed in the very large accession of new members 

 during the past year. 



In accordance with the desire expressed at the close of the course 

 of scientific lectures, delivered before the Institute last winter, the 

 Trustees made arrangements for a similar, but shorter, course for the 

 present season, and the following programme of the lecturers was 

 issued : 



I. Friday, December 17th, 18G9. " The Battle Fields of Science." 

 By Andrew "White, President of Cornell University, Ithaca, X. Y. 



II. Friday, December 24th, 18G9. " IIow Animals Move." By 

 Professor E. S. Morse, of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 

 Mass. 



III. Friday, December 31st, 1869. "The Correlation of Vital 

 and Physical Forces." By Professor G. F. Barker, of Yale College, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



