14 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



The Twenty- Seve7ith Anmial Fair of the Americcm Institute of 

 the city of JYew-York, incorporated for the purpose of encour- 

 aging and promoting domestic industry in this State and the 

 United States, by bestowing rewards and other benefits on those 

 who excel in any of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, 

 Manufactures, and the Arts. 



The 27tli Annual Fair of the American Institute will be opened 

 in the city of New- York on the 3d day of October, 1855, and con- 

 tinue during the month. 



The managers announce to the manufacturers, mechanics, in- 

 ventors, artisans, farmers, gardeners, and all others interested, 

 in the United States, that they have secured the Crystal Palace, 

 erected in 1853, for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, 

 in which to hold the 27th Amiual Fair of the American Institute. 

 This magnificent and spacious building will afford unusual 

 facilities for the arrangement and display of tlie various speci- 

 mens of ar^ and productions of nature. Steam-power will be 

 provided, to put in operation machinery of every description, 

 and the managers pledge themselves to make every exertion in 

 their power to efiect such arrangements lor the accommodation 

 of exhibiters as will secure the great ends of the exhibition. 



Premiums of gold and silver medals, cups, books, and diplo- 

 mas, will be awarded to the exhibiters of articles deemed worthy of 

 such distinction, by competent judges appointed for that purpose. 

 Practical and disinterested persons, acquainted with the seve- 

 ral branches in which they shall be appointed, will be selected 

 for judges, to whom all articles for competition will be referred, 

 in order to secure the same satisfaction that has heretofore been 

 given, in the bestowal of the awards of this Institute. To insure 

 a perfect impartiality, the by-laws of the Institute prohibit " any 

 premium being awarded by the board of managers to any member 

 of their board, to any of the trustees, or to any of the standing 

 committees of the Institute, or anything in lieu thereof." 



The awards will not be confined to specimens prepared ex- 

 pressly for exhibition ; but when articles are entered as being of 

 ordinary manufacture for general consumption, full weight will 

 be given to that fact, as showing the actual state of the particu- 

 lar branch to which they belong. 



The managers desire strongly to impress exhibitors with the 

 necessity of furnishing information, at an early day, of the de- 

 scription of articles they intend to exhibit, and the space requir- 

 ed for their proper display. 



