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kins Lyceum, distinct from the share- 
holders, designated as honorary and 
corresponding members. 
‘‘Honorary members may be chosen by 
the Trustees, from such as are distin- 
guished for their attainments in literature, 
art or science, or such as have conferred 
any signal benefit on this incorporation.”” 
In February, 1843, for some reason, 
unknown to the writer, the affairs of the 
Association began to drag, and meetings 
were held without the transaction of any 
important business, and ‘‘finally a ijourn- 
ed without date.” 
From the first annual report we also 
learn that ‘“‘the rooms now occupied by 
the Lyceum have been hired for a year at 
one hundre: and twenty dollars.’’ 
“The Librarian, Mr. Theodore Frean, 
has been employed toattend at the rcoms 
daily, from four to nine o’clock p m, at 
one hundred dollars per annum, fromthe 
first of February, 1842.’’ 
‘‘Mr. Joseph Taylor has also been em- 
ployed as a collector of dues at five per 
cent., and to attend at the door of the 
Lyceum on lecture nights at fifty cen's 
each night.”’ 
“The Library now consists, (1842), of 
gg0 volumes, all of which, with the ex- 
ception of the 45 volumes embraced in the 
Christian L, brary, have either been pre 
sented by donors or deposited with and 
loaned to the Lyceum foritsuse. Among 
the many valuable articles which have 
thus been deposited with the Lyceum, 
the Directors take occasion especially to 
acknowledge a fine portrait of Daniel D. 
Tompkins, painted by Jarvis, and de- 
posited by the Hon. Minthorne Tomp- 
kins.”’ 
The compliment of honorary member- 
ship was conferred upon the Hon. Min- 
thorne Tompkins, Rev. Orville Dewey, 
and James Pierce. Charles M. Wheatley, 
of New York, was elected a corresponding 
member. 
According to the report of the Treas- 
urer, up to February 23d, 1843, besides a 
donation of an entire set of Harper's 
Family Library, there had been received: 
From members’ dues and fines, $296.32; 
from lectures, $36.27; donation from C. 
Vanderbilt, $40.00; donation from C. Mil- 
ler, of Albany, $5.00. J 
From the annual report of 1343, we 
quote: ; 
“In this report the Directors are neces- 
sarily limited, but they cannot refrain 
from congratulating the members upon 
the success of this institution. Formed 
in asmall village, and overlooked by the 
giant and flourishing institutions of the 
Metropolis of the New World, it has been 
able to secure for itself favor, even from 
among those who h:-dthe most ample 
opportunity of communing with the city 
libraries and availing themselves of the 
attractive lectures which kindred insti- 
tutions in the city have such superior 
facilities for producing. Yet the local 
pride and patriotism of the people of this 
village and its vicinity have been suffi- 
cient to overcome all the obstacles which 
were incideatal to our experiment, end 
we now have an institution which the 
Directors feel the highest pride in assert- 
ing to be acredit to its members and an 
ornament to Staten Island.”’ 
The Tompkins Lyceum was incorpor- 
ated on March Igth, 1844. The officers 
that yeat were as follows: John S. 
Westervelt, President; Fraucis L. Haga- 
dorn, Corresponding Secretary; G. W. 
Wheeler, Recording Secretary; George A. 
Osgood, ‘Treasurer; W. C. Anderson, 
Curator of Natural History; Archibald 
Gordon, Chairman Library Committee; 
D. B. Allen, Chairman Finance Commit- 
tee; W. S. Root, Chairman Lecture Com- 
mittee; Jacob H Vanderbilt, George Cat- 
lin, Albert Ward and A. C. Miller, Trus. 
