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T. Romeyn Beck, 

 James Stevenson, 

 Matthew Gregory, 

 John Tayler, 

 Charles R. Webste 

 John S. Walsh, 

 Peter Wendell, 

 Edmund C. Genet, 

 Hugh Robison, 



Elisha Jenkins, President. 



T. Romeyn Beck, 1st Vice President. , 



Stephen Van Rensselaer, 2d Via Preside, 



Matthew H. Webster, Correspond in <> Sen 



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Duncan M'ivercher, Treasurer. 



D. M'Ker 

 Ebenezer 



No electionwasheldin the Third Department, and the offi- 

 cers of last year consequently continued in office. 



Stephen Van Rensselaer was elected President, and 

 William Mayell, Treasurer. 



The Curators reported, that during the recess of the Insti- 

 tute, the following donations had been received : From Peter 

 S.Henry, Gorgonia from Georgia; from Gideon Hawley, 

 an engraved map of the Albany pier and basin ; from Joseph 

 P. Mott, a collection of West India shells, and the annual 

 reports of the New York Hospital, and Bloomingdale Luna- 

 tic Asylum for 1824; from the author, Memoire sur la fab- 

 rique du Magasin eeniral <lrs inventions nnuvelles, par Q. Du- 

 rand, Paris; from L. C. Beck, Boletus io-narius, from Pitts- 

 field, Mass. ; Trcmolite from Windsor, Vermont; Encrinites 

 and Septaria, from Rochester ; from James E. Jones, an Eng- 

 lish silver coin, (George I.) ; from David Hosack, M. D. his 

 Medical Essays, 2 vol. 8vo. New- York, 1824; from William 

 M*Culloch,coppei ental money ; from George 



W. Jewett, Hezckiah Skinner, William Stewart, James M'- 

 Glashan, Rensselaer Westerlo and Dr. Ebenezer Emmons, 

 forty-two copper coins; from Rev. Mr. Leonard, E. W. 

 Skinner and Silas Bulklev, continental and colonial paper 

 money ; from Charles Baldwin of New-York, Scolopendra 

 Morsitans, from Carthagena, (South America,) and mother 

 of pearl shell from the East Indies; from William G. Ver 

 Planck, two specimens of Lacerta, from Mount Pleasant, 



