PART II. APPENDIX. 



Page. 



Charter of the Society for the promotion of Useful Arts, 1 

 Charter of the Albany Lyceum of Natural History, 3 



Charter of the Albany Institute, 5 



Catalogue of the Library of the Albany Institute, April, 1829, 7 



List of Donors to the Library, 23 



History of the Institute, with an abstract of its Proceedings, 25 



For the year 1824, 26 to 31 



For the year 1825, 32 to 43 



For the year 1826, 43 to 53 



For the year 1S27, 53 to 64 



William Mayell on the processes used in Hat Making, 28 

 I. Shaw on the evaporation of Spirits from Preparations, 31 

 C. M. Stebbins on the Plants growing in and near Hudson, 33 - 

 T. R. Beck on the Bituminous Coal of Tioga county, Penn. 34 

 M. H. Webster on the Unio Crassus var. Giganteus, 35- 

 J. Henry on Cold produced by the rarefraction of Air, 36 

 L. C. Beck on the Lead Mines of the Western States, ib. 



S. De Witt on Soap Alumina, 41 



G. W. Featherstonhaugh on the principles of the natural 



draught of Horses, 46 



G. W. Clinton on a species of Hawk, 51*- 



T. R. Beck on the analysis of Hydraulic Lime, .... 52 

 Stephen Van Rensselaer. Meteorological Observations 



made at Washington, during 1S26, 57 



Matthew Stevenson. Meteorological Table for 1S26, kept 



at Cambridge, Washington county, 58 



Report of a committee, on Bronzing, 60 



S. De Witt on a Conical Rain Gage, 60 



Catalogue of the honorary, non-resident, corresponding and 



resident Members, ........... 65 



