PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ALBANY INSTITUTE. 



January 13, 1858. 

 The president, John V. L. Pruyn, in the chair. 



Besides the members of the society, there were present, 

 Prof. Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 

 at Washington, and George R. Perkins, deputy surveyor- 

 general of the state of New York. 



After the reading of the minutes, the president addressed 

 the Institute, referring to the presence of Prof. Henry, and 

 to his early labors in the cause of science, conducted in the 

 very building in which they were met, and congratulating 

 the Iustitute on the return to one of its meetings of one 

 connected with its early history and prosperity. He con- 

 cluded by extending to Prof. Henry a cordial welcome. 



Prof. Henry responded — expressing his pleasure at being 

 permitted to meet with the Institute. He referred to his 

 early associates in his scientific labors ; recounted the cir- 

 cumstances of his leaving Albany, and the manner in which 

 he had since been received and honored. He expressed 

 particularly his sense of the kindness of the welcome ex- 

 tended to him by a society with which he had been former- 

 ly so intimately connected. 



