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Dr. Gould then gave an account of the operations now in 

 progress for determining the longitude of the Dudley Ob- 

 servatory. The point of comparison was Mr. Rutherford's 

 private observatory at New York and the method employed 

 was the telegraphic. 



The result shows : 



Longitude east miu. 57.2 sec. 



This corresponds to a longitude of 4h. 54 min. 58.6 sec. 

 west of Greenwich, or Oh. 13m. 12.61 sec. east of Washington. 



Dr. Gould also gave an account of the progress which 

 had been made in bringing into use the Scheutz Tabulating 

 machine, and exhibited specimens of the work of the ma- 

 chine in printing an Ephemeris of Mars. 



A donation was announced from David E. E. Mix of a 

 survey of the Niagara Ship Canal. 



Adjourned. 



Oct. 19, 1858. 



The president, Mr. Pruyn, in the chair. 



William A. Jackson, D. B. Luther and Howard Carroll 

 were proposed as resident members. 



Dr. F. B. Hough then read a paper upon the wolf hunting 

 frauds of Franklin county in 1820-21 and 22. He sketched 

 the various laws which had been passed in New York for 

 the destruction of beasts of prey. The bounties from all 

 sources, state, county and town, amounted at this time to 

 $60 for every wolf, and for other animals in like ratio. 

 There was paid in bounties in this county in three years, 

 $55,521, or nearly $12.30 for every man, woman and child 

 in the county. The extraordinary tax aroused the attention 

 of tax payers, many of whom were non-resident land owners 

 living in New York city. Peter Gansevoort and E. Baldwin 

 of Albany, were commissioned by the legislature to proceed 

 to the county and examine into, and if possible detect the 

 frauds which were perpetrated. They examined many wit- 

 nesses, but found the persons who had committed the frauds 



