Notice of Screntific Societies. 371 
6. Connecticut Acapemy or Arts anp Sciences. New 
Haven, Conn. Incorporated 1739. The first volume of 
their Memoirs was published in 1810, and contains papers by 
Dwight, on the Meloe vesicatoria ; by Messrs. Silliman and 
Kingsley, on meteoric stones. The last part of their trans- - 
actions appeared in 1813, since which the society have ap- 
parently relaxed their exertions, It may be mentioned that 
the celebrated Experiments on the fusion of various refracto- 
vy bodies, by Prof. Silliman, appeared in these transactions. 
These experiments were strangely overlooked, and the pri- 
ority claimed by Dr. Clarke of England, in a work published 
in 1820, although he could not have been ignorant that these 
experiments had been performed by Prof. Silliman, in con- 
junction with Dr. Hare, of Philadelphia, nearly twenty years 
previous. 
7. AMERICAN GeotoeicatL Society. New Haven, Conn. In- 
corposated !819 Meet annually in September, and its meet- 
ings are held provisionally at New Haven. No separate trans- 
actions have as yet made their appearance, but many of the 
communications made to the Society have been published in 
this Journal, : 
8. Pirtsrietp Lyceum. Pittsfield, Mass. Instituted 1823. 
9. Society or Arts. Albany, New York. Instituted ; 
and have, under different titles, published four octavo volumes 
of their transactions. Some interesting botanical and geologi- 
cal papers are to be found in these volumes; it has been re- 
cently incorporated with the Albany Lyceum, and is now 
known as the “ Albany Institute.”” Arrangements are making 
to publish a volume of their transactions.* 
* It will hardly be considered out of place, to speak here of the Rensse- 
' laer School, recently established by Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany, 
which bids fair to become a nursery for Naturalists. It is now im success- 
ful operation. Its object is to qualify teachers for instructing the sons 
and daughters of farmers and mechanics, by lectures or otherwise, in the 
application of experimental chemistry, philosophy, and natural history, to 
agriculture, domestic economy, the arts, and manufactures. Mr. Eaton 
is Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy and Lecturer on Ge- 
ology, land surveying, &c. Dr. L. C. Beck, a gentleman already ad- 
vantageously known as a botanist, is Professor of Botany, Mineralogy, 
and Zoology. Well cultivated farms and workshops are established in 
the vicinity of the school, as places of scholastic exercise for students, 
where the application of the sciences may be most conveniently taught. 
They are also exercised in giving lectures by turns on all the branches 
