TRANSACTIONS 

 ALBANY INSTITUTE. 



The Albany Institute is composed of two Societies, which for 

 various periods of time have existed in this city— the Society for 

 the Promotion of Useful Arts in the State of New-York, and the 



Albany Lyceum of Natural History. Circumstances not neces- 

 sary to be explained, led to an union of effort and property between 

 their members and other citizens, and as a necessary consequence, 

 to an enlargement of the objects of investigation. The present 

 title of the association was adopted, under the idea that it would 

 comprise the pursuit, both of science and literature, in their most 



It has been deemed advisable to commence the publication of 

 some of the papers read before the Society. The members do not 

 flatter themselves that they will greatly add to the general stock of 

 knowledge — they may hope, however, that their efforts will tend 

 to disseminate a taste for it. 



