22 TRANSACTIONS OP THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



entitled to participate in the very interesting Aveekly debates of the 

 Polyteclmic Association and the Farmers' Club. The objects of the 

 Institute being to disseminate useful information, rather than to pro- 

 mote its own aggrandizement, its operations are not confined to 

 the circumscribed limits of its own members ; and it is to be regret- 

 ted that a co-ordinate committee of the Institute has recommended 

 so great a retrenchment in its expenses as to preclude the advanta- 

 ges herein set forth. However, the visits of strangers are cordially 

 invited ; they will always receive the polite attention of the compe- 

 tent Librarian, who will at all times impart such information as is 

 calculated to make their visits pleasant and instructive. 



Believing that the winter of our discontent will soon be made glo- 

 rious summer by the revival of those employments which tend to 

 peace and prosperity, which are elevating and ennobling, onward and 

 upward, diffusing light and knowledge in all their course, and never 

 ceasing until the Institute shall have accomplished the great objects 

 for which it was chartered. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



WM. HIBBARD, 

 JAMES K. CAMPBELL, 

 JIREH BULL, 

 EDWARD WALKER, 

 RUSSELL SMITH, 



Committee. 



