REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 



OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



To the Honorable Legislature of the Stale of JVew York : 



The Trustees of the American Institute, in conformity with law, 

 beg leave to present their annual report for tlie years 1863-4. 



On the second day of April last, the American Institute passed a 

 series of resolutions in relation to the great International Agricul- 

 tural Exhibition, to be held in the city of Hamburg, one of the free 

 cities of Germany, these resolutions were printed in circular form 

 and sent to the various Agricultural Societies throughont the Uni- 

 ted States, urging them to forward contributions of the inventions 

 and improvements in agricultural implements and machinery, and 

 also specimens of the agricultural products of the countr3\ A copy 

 of the resolutions were transcribed in the German language and 

 forwarded to his Excellency Baron Ernst v6n Merck, the chairman 

 of the Hamburg Exhibition '[Committee. 



Three delegates were appointed to visit and report upon the ex- 

 hibition, viz : Messrs. Austin Baldwin, Jos. E. Anderson and C. W. 

 Wennberg. 



Baron von Merck, by a letter received by the President, dated 

 June 9, 1863, acknowledged the receipt of the resolutions, and ten- 

 dered the Institute the warmest thanks for the interest taken by 

 the Institute, for the success of the Exhibi tion, and assuring them 

 that Hamburg would do all in her power to receive, in a suitable 

 manner, the representatives sent to the Exhibition. 



This communication was read at the meeting of the Institute, on 

 the 20th of August, and ordered on file. 



We regret to announce that before the arrival of our delegates, 

 and before the Exhibition had opened its vast collection to the 

 public, Baron von Merck, under whose enlarj;ed views and extensive 

 influence in the National Counsels, it had been mainly projected, 

 was suddenly stricken down by the hand of death, and the Exhibi- 

 tion lost one of its ablest directors, and his countrymen one of its 

 most estimable citizens. 



Austin Baldwin, Esq., one of our delegates to this Fair, makes 

 the following report : 



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