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Annual Address, prepared and read May 25, 1871, before the 

 Albany Institute, on invitation; by Orlando Meads, Esq., 1 



Report of the Second Class in the Second Department (Botany), 

 by Charles H. Peck, A. M., 35 



Present State of the Inquiry into the Origin and Primal Con- 

 dition of Man, by Wm. H. Hale, Ph. D., - 14 



Remarks on Assaying Ores of the Precious Metals, and a new 

 Method with the Blowpipe, by Leroy C. Cooley, Ph. D., - 60 



Description of a Printing Chronograph, by Prof. Geo. W. 

 Hough, Director of the Dudley Observatory, 66 



Report of the Third Class in the Third Department, (General 

 Literature), by Leonard Kip, Esq., 73 



Nitroglycerine, as used in the Construction of the Hoosac 

 Tunnel, by Professor George M. Mowbray, of North 

 Adams, Mass., 90 



The Palatine Emigration to England, in 1709, by Henry A. 

 Homes, A. M., - 106 



Report of Third Class, Second Department (Zoology), by Geo. 

 T. Stevens, M. D., - 132 



Report on the recent Progress of Chemistry, by Leroy C. 

 Cooley, Ph. D., - 144 



