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The society directed that an appropriate address should 
be delivered by a member at the next anniversary. The 
_» ease ordered to be constructed, to receive the commencing 
- Collection of the society, is finished, and in a good measure 
filled. A box of specimens has been presented by Colonel 
Gibbs; and another is announced as being on its way from 
Professor Dewey, of Williamstown. 
A letter has recently been received by one of the Vice- 
Presidents, from William Maclure, Esq. President of the 
society, dated at Paris, in August, informing that a collec- 
tion of books,* and two boxes of foreign specimens, col- 
lected by Mr. Maclure, during his travels in Europe, had 
been shipped for the society, and that another box of rock 
specimens had been ordered by him to be sent from Phila- 
delphia. A box of specimens has been presented to the 
society by Professor Amos Eaton, and Dr. Theodore R. 
Beck ; the collection was made during their late examina- 
tion of Albany county, and is illustrative of the mineralogy 
’ and geology of that district. 
Pharmaceutical preparations. 
Dr. Thomas Huntington, of New-London, is engaged in 
manufacturing medicines, particularly such as are prone to 
be adulterated, or are particularly important. From the 
zeal manifested by this gentleman, and his skill, as evinced 
by some very neat, and apparently pure preparations, trans- 
mitted to us, we cannot doubt that he is entitled to the con- 
fidence of the medical faculty, and to that of the public.— 
Among his preparations we notice the precipitated carbonat 
of iron, the green sulphate of the same metal, and the sul- 
phate of zinc, and the muriat of barytes. We understand 
that he will prepare the phosphat of iron, and that he will 
occupy himself particularly with the formation of extracts, 
such as that of cicuta, &c. 
Sulphate of Barytes. 
We have received from Dr. Comstock, of Hartford, some 
handsome specimens of sulphate of barytes, penetrated by 
* Perceived from the catalogue to he very valuable. 
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