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quarto. The astronomical and mathematical papers are most 

 numerous ; and the memoirs on Natural History by Messrs. 

 Cutler, Cleaveland, and Peck, may be consulted with advan- 

 tage. The paper by Mr. Cutler entitled " An account of some 

 of the vegetable productions naturally growing in this part of 

 the country botanically arranged," is still occasionally referred 

 to by botanists. 



3. Linnaean Society of New England. Boston, Mass. In- 

 stituted . I am not aware that this society has published 



any thing beside " A report of a committee relative to a large 

 marine animal, supposed to be a serpent, seen near Cape Ann, 

 Mass." 



4. Franklin Society. 1 D • i r> r 

 r t->i_i i • o • * \ Providence, R. 1. 



5. Fnilopnusian Society. J 



The first of these societies is in active operation. A neat 

 laboratory has been established, and the members are devoting 

 much of their attention to the analysis of minerals. Perhaps 

 no part of the Union offers a richer field for researches of this 

 kind than the state of Rhode Island. As the objects of both 

 these societies are precisely similar, we should imagine that 

 more would be effected by a united effort, than by divided and 

 rival institutions. 



6. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. NewUave?i t 

 Conn. Incorporated 1799. The first volume of their Me- 

 moirs 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 Transactions ap- 

 peared in 1813, since which the society have apparently re- 

 laxed in their exertions. It may be mentioned that the cele- 

 brated " Experiments on the fusion of various refractory 

 bodies," by Prof. Silliman, appeared in these Transactions. 

 These experiments were strangely overlooked, and the priority 

 claimed by Dr. Clarke of England, in a work published in 

 1820, although he could not have been ignorant that these ex- 

 periments had been performed by Prof. Silliman, in conjunc- 

 tion with Dr. Hare, of Philadelphia, nearly twenty years pre- 

 vious. 



7. American Geological Socity. New Haven, Conn. In- 

 corporated 1819. 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. Pittsfield Lyceum. Pittsfield, Mass. Instituted 1823. 



9. Society of Arts. Albany, New York. Instituted ; 



and have, under different titles, published four octavo volumes 



of 



