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eluded many persons of distinction as scholars, and also 

 in professional and civil life. Its standard publica- 

 tions are eight volumes of Transactions, two volumes 

 of Proceedings, and a volume entitled Field Meetings of 

 the Albany Instiiuie} 



The charters of the first three of these societies are 

 printed in vol. vi of the Institute Transactions, which 

 also contains the first edition of the Manual of the 

 Institute, prepared in 1870.^ A new edition of the 

 Manual is furnished in the present publication. 



A printed copy of the " First Annual Report of the 

 Albany Institute, presented July 1, 1825," eight pages 

 octavo, is preserved in Pamphlet volume Xo. 210, of 

 the Institute Library. 



For a number of years subsequent to the organiza- 

 tion of the Institute, the several departments were ac- 

 customed to hold regular meetings for the transaction 

 of their appropriate business, during whicli period new 



^ Transactions of the Albany Institute. Albany, 1830. Part i, pp. 

 vii, 250 ; Part ii, appendix pp. 74, 6 plates. Vol. ii, 1833-52, pp. viii, 

 354 8 plates. Vol. iii, Catalogue of tlie Library. 1855, pp. vii, 454. 

 Vol. IV. 1858-64, pp. viii, 323. Vol. v, 1867. pp. v, 327. 6 plates. 

 Vol. VI, 1870, pp. iv, 382. Vol. vii, pp. iv, 351, 3 plates. Vol. vni, 1876, 

 pp. V, 307. 8 vols.. 8 vo. 



Proceedings of the Albany Institute, from March, 1865 to Sept., 



1872. Vol. I. pp. 400. Vol. ii, Oct., 1872 to Dec, 1877. Albany, 



1873, 1878, 2 vols., 8vo. 



Field Meetings of the Albany Institute, 1870-75. Albany, 1876, 

 pp. 150, 8vo. 



This record of the field meetings is also included in the volumes 

 of Proceedings, in continuous paging. 



' Manual of the Albany Institute : Prepared under the order of the 

 Institute, March, 1870, by Daniel J. Pratt, Recording Secretary, 

 Albany 1870, pp. 48, 8vo. 



Manual of the Albany Institute. New Edition, 1878, pp. 29, 8vo. 



