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the record in the Albany Institute proceedings, and the 

 several dates of the publications of the papers of Prof. 

 Swallow and of Messrs. Meek and Hayden, and the Iowa 

 report being considered. 



A committee was accordingly appointed in accordance 

 with Prof. Hall's request, consisting of Gen. Gansevoort, 

 C. B. Redfield and Col. Jewett, curator of the State Geolo- 

 gical Cabinet. 



Dr. Hough announced a large list of donations from Mr. 

 William Menzies of N. Y., a corresponding member of the 

 Institute. 



On motion the thanks of the Institute were tendered to 

 Mr. Menzies for his large donations, and the secretary was 

 directed to intimate to him that any duplicates which the 

 Institute might have in its possession, were at his disposal. 



Adjourned. 



November 15, 1858. 

 The President, Hon. John V. L. Pruyn, in the chair. 



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

 proposed at the last meeting were elected. Paul F. Cooper, 

 Joel Rathbone and R. W. Swan were proposed as resident 

 members. 



Henry A. Homes, of the N. Y. State Library, read the 

 paper for the evening, entitled, The Results of the Contro- 

 versies on the Origin of the Art of Printing. He observed 

 that within the last thirty years the claim that printing with ' 

 movable type was invented in Holland at Haarlem, and by 

 Koster, has been much strengthened. The two chief testi- 

 monies, that of Ulric Zel of Cologne, and that of Junius 

 the historiographer of Holland, have been explained and 

 verified extensively by the discovery and study of monu- 

 ments of early printing hitherto unknown and disregarded ; 

 and many learned men, not only French and English, but 

 also Germans, now admit that the earliest monuments of 

 printing are of Dutch origin. There is sufficient ground 



