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use and application of the requisite instruments necessary to be 

 employed in the practice of the sciences named above. 



The undersigned take pleasure in stating that Dr. Jackson is 

 in possession of an extensive laboratory, complete in all its parts, 

 in apparatus and books, and a splendid collection of minerals, 

 metallic ores, rocks, and organic remains from the most interest- 

 ing and important localities in the United States, as well as from 

 other parts of the globe, which will be used as far as may be 

 necessary to illustrate the several branches it is proposed to 

 teach. He is favorably and widely known for high attainments 

 and the distinction which has been conferred on him both at 

 home and abroad for the useful and scientific discoveries he has 

 made. He has also been actively employed for many yearsin ma- 

 king geological surveys of several states of the Union, as well as 

 Mineralogical surveys of our public lands. And, as a practical 

 miner, or as an agricultural and analytical chemist, he is enti- 

 tled to confidence, and may be safely consulted as occasion may 

 require. 



GEORGE BACON, 

 H. MEIGS, 

 F. S. KINNEY, 

 LIV. LIVINGSTON, 

 Com. of the Am. Institute* 

 JN'ew-York, J^ovember Sth^ 1851. 



HON. CLARKSON CROLIUS, SEN., 



Late Vice President of the American Institute. 



It is not our intention to prepare a lengthened or very minutely 

 detailed biography of Colonel Crolius. The services which he 

 rendered in endeavors to promote the industrial interests of our 

 country, his determined and long continued efforts in support of 

 our manufacturing interests, as the true policy of our government 

 the earnestness with which he devoted his time in efforts to bring 

 out the latent talents of our artisans, his services with others in 

 founding the American Institute, and his active and honorable 



