CONTENTS. 



Act of Incorporation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New- York, 



By-Laws and Regulations of the Society, 



List of the resident Members of the Society, 



List of the honorary Members of the Society, 



Officers of the Society, anno 1814, 



Officers of the Society, anuo 1815, 



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Introductory Discourse delivered hefore the Society on 4th of May, 1814, by 

 De Witt Clinton, LL. D President of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of New- York, Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, of 

 the American Antiquarian Society ; President of the American Academy 

 of Arts, &c. ........... 



Notes and Illustrations, 



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No. I.— Of Comets. By Hugh Williamson, M. D. LL. D. Fellow of the 

 ^American Philosophical Society ; Member of the Holland Society of 

 Sciences ; of the Society of Arts and Sciences of Utrecht ; of the Massa- 

 chusetts Historical Society, &c. . . . . . . .187 



No. II. — Observations on the Laws governing the Communication of Contagious 

 Diseases, and the Means of Arresting their Progress. By David Hosace, 

 M. D. F. L. S. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic and 

 Clinical Medicine, in the University of the State of New York ; Vice 

 President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York ; Fellow 

 ,.. of the American Philosophical Society, of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences, &c. . . . - . . . . 201 



Additional Notes on Contagion, &c. 241 



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