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Stephen Van Rensselaer, President. 

 Simeon De Witt, President of the First Department, and 

 Elisha Jenkins, President of the Second Department, ex 

 officiis, Vice Presidents. 



William Mayell, Treasurer. 



Peter Gansevoort and ) n 7 . L , A . 



Lewis C. Beck, > Corresponding Secretaries. 



uSe^T^WALr, } Recording Secretaries. 



Richard Varick De Witt, *) 



Matthew Henry Webster and i Curators. 



James Eights, J 

 A joint committee, previously appointed to examine the 

 libraries and collections of the two Societies, and to make 

 catalogues thereof, reported that the library of the First 

 Department (or Society of Arts,) consisted of 277 volumes, 

 and that of the Second Department (or Albany Lyceum,) of 

 52 volumes, including pamphlets.* 



The committee further reported, that the collections in 

 Natural History and the Arts, belonging to the First Depart- 

 ment, consisted of 394 specimens, obtained either by pur- 

 chase, or presented by the following persons, viz De Witt 



Clinton, Jonathan Eights, Henry W. Snyder, Edmund C. 

 Genet, John Lansing, Jr. Jacob Green, Matthew Henry 

 Webster, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Vinal Luce, Sylvanus 

 Fansher. 



That the collections in Natural History and the Arts, be- 

 longing to the Second Department, consisted of 1473 speci- 

 mens, (excluding the botanical collection) presented by the 

 following persons, viz.— Stephen Van Rensselaer,t Stephen 

 Van Rensselaer, Jr. J James Hadley, David Thomas, The- 

 odric Romeyn Beck, S. De Witt Bloodgood, Jacob Green, 

 Lewis C. Beck, Matthew Henry Webster, Winslow C. Wat- 

 son, Gporge W. Bush, James Eights, Isaac Doolittle, Wil- 

 liam Cooper, Mordecai Morgan, Samuel K. Kip, John C. 

 Whiting, Ten Eyck Gansevoort, J. Smyth Rogers, Ebene- 

 zer Baldwin, Joseph Henry, John I. Godfrey, John Gris- 

 com, William U. Titus, Elkanah Watson, Thomas Mather, 



