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lution for collecting and preserving’ such specimens of 
earths and metallic ores, as our state may afford. 
In order to carry this desirable object into effect, the So¬ 
ciety for the Promotion of Useful Arts, invite the members 
of the society as well as the lovers of the science in every 
part of the state, to forward to the recording secretary at 
Albany, such specimens of earths, earthy fossils, and me- 
talic ores, as they may severally meet with, and request 
them to accompany all such specimens with as particular an 
account of its natural (geological) situation as possible, and 
to forward with the specimens a portion of their matrix , or 
the stony or earthy substance in which they were imbedded. 
The society intend to arrange and preserve these speci¬ 
mens in a proper cabinet for the inspection and use of its 
members, and those who may have contributed to it.” 
A true copy, 
T. ROMEYN BECK, R. S. 
Any minerals transmitted to either of the members of 
the chemical committee, to any of the members of the 
society resident in Albany, or to either of the correspond¬ 
ing secretaries, will receive due notice, and a particular 
account of its mineralogical character (if required) will be 
given. It is however to be understood, that at least two 
specimens of the same mineral must be forwarded, one for 
the cabinet, and the other for the experiments that may be 
deemed necessary to be made on it. 
In Society , March 16, 1814. 
Resolved , That the committee of Fine Arts, be request¬ 
ed to procure a copy of the best and most correct portrait 
of the late president of this society, Robert R. Living¬ 
ston, and that the expenses thereof will be defrayed by 
the society, 
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A true copy, 
T. ROMEYN BECK, R. S, 
