Young Men's Association of the City of Albany. Dennison Worthington, 1st Vice President. Philo K. Cole, 3d do. Wm. H. Fondey, Corresponding Secretary. A. F. Lansing, Librarian.. Albany Apprentices” Library. TRUSTEES. William Mayell, Presidents Gideon Hawley, Joseph Fry, Job Gould, William Boyd, Bradford R. Wood, John H. Prentice, Wm. Alvord, Timothy Seymour, Lewis G. Hoffman, Norman Francis, Jas. S. Gould. James S. Gould, Librarian. Northern Institute and Academy of Fine Arts. The first annual exhibition commenced in 1831. Among the contributors are Dunlap, Harding, Inman, Wall, Ames, Page, Aldridge, Collins, Spencer, and Benford. Ezra Ames, President. Robert Higham, Vice President. James D. Nicholson, Corresponding Secretary J. W Hinckley, Recording Secretary. Lewi J. Jones, Treasurer. BROOKLYN. Brooklyn Lyceum. Chartered 2d May, 1834. This institution was formed in October, 1833. A site has been purchased for a handsome building on the corner of Washington and Concord streets, and it is proposed to erect the edifice as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers to its stock has been obtained, which stock is fixed at $35,000. Peter W. Radcliff, President. Jeremiah Johnson, Vice Presidents. Gabriel Furman, Corresponding Secretary. For promoting literature, science and the arts. 17 Directors. Franklin Institute of Rochester. For the cultivation of literature, science and the arts. Nine Managers. UTICA. New-York State Lyceum. Formed at Utica in 1831. Stephen Van Rensselaer, (of Albany.) President. Charles Bartlett, Recording Secretary. Oneida County Lyceum, Utica. This was organized in October, 1830, to promote the improvement of our common school system, and to advance the general object of common education in the county. First annual meeting, at Utica, Aug. 25, 1831. Samuel D. Dakin, Corresponding Secretary. Asahel Seward, Treasurer. Directors.-Thomas Goodsell, William R. Weeks, Fortune C. White, Charles Avery, Theodore S. Gold, S. Whittlesey, E. S. Barrows, Walter King, Charles Bartlett, Harvey Blodget, Simeon North, William J. Bacon. Utica Library. Incorporated March 5, 1825, 2,000 volumes, Utica Mechanics' Association. Incorporated May 5th, 1331, Gardiner Tracy, President. Rudolph Snyder, 1st Vice President Ezra S. Barnum, 2d do. Thos. Collins, Corresponding Secretary. Julius A. Spencer, Recording Secretary. Directors.-John C. Devereux, Theo. S. Faxton, Philemon Lyon, John C. Hastings, John S. Peckham, Harvey Barnard, Jones M'Gregor, Z. M. Masson, Chester Griswold, John Reed, Samuel Farewell, Edward Herrick, Norman C. Newel, Jacob D. Edwards, Thomas H. Hubbard. The objects of the Association are the "promotion and encouragement of the Arts and Sciences." It supports a reading room, in which is contained the leading papers and periodicals of the day. An extensive library is attached to the institution. A fair is annually held, at which specimens of the manufactures and improvements of the county of Oneida are presented, and premiums awarded by the Association. A splendid hall will be built for the use of the Association, reading room, and library, at the corner of Hotel and Liberty streets. Young Men's Association. Founded February, 1834. Object.-The mutual improvement of its members, by the establishment of a reading and news room, a library, a society for public debates and courses of public lectures on literary and scientific subjects. This institution now has 260 members, and the library contains 60 volumes. James Watson Williams, President. Frederick Hollister, 1st Vice President. Thomas R. Walker, Corresponding Secretary. Henry H. Williams, Recording Secretary. Henry D. Tucker, Librarian. MISCELLANEOUS INSTITUTIONS. New-York Chamber of Commerce. Robert Lenox, President. William W. Woolsey, 1st Vice President. Isaac Carow, 2d do. Henry I. Wyckoff, Treasurer. Jacob Harvey, Secretary. Standing Committee.-Isaac Carow, George Griswold, John A. Stevens, James G. King, Peter I. Nevius. Annual election, first Tuesday in May. Meetings first Tuesday in every month. General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New-York. William Mandeville, Treasurer. James Van Norden, Secretary. Robert Provost, Collector and Door Keeper. Annual election, second Tuesday in January. Stated meetings, first Wednesday in every month. American Institute of the City of New-York. Office and Library No. 187 Broadway. Organized Jan., 1828-Incorporated May 2, 1829. "For the purpose of encouraging and promoting domestic industry in this state and the United States, in agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and the arts, and any improvements made therein, by bestowing rewards and other benefits on those who shall make any such improvements, or excel in any of the said branches." *The President of this Society is ex officio a director of the Mechanics' Bank, TRUSTEES. James Tallmadge, President. Clarkson Crolius, } Martin E. Thompson, Vice Presidents. Edwin Williams, Recording Secretary. T. B. Wakeman, Cor. Sec'y, and Superintending Agent. Annual election, second Thursday in May. Stated meetings, second Thursday in each month, at Clinton Hall. The Institute is composed of four departments, viz:- Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and the Arts. The first Manufacturers' Fair held under the auspices of the Institute, was in October, 1828, at Masonic Hall, since which six other annual fairs have been held. The Institute has published, at different times, reports on the following subjects:-Cotton goods, glass, silk, indigo, cash duties and auctions, ship building, and tonnage duties, and reports on the annual fairs. To encourage the culture of silk in the United States, the Institute, in 1829, imported a quantity of mulberry seed from France, which was distributed gratuitously to agriculturists. STATISTICAL LIBRARY. In 1833, the Institute resolved to establish a statistical library, and $1,000 have been since appropriated from the funds of the society towards that object. The library is divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each. payable in money or books, which entitle the subscribers to the benefits of the library, to which additions are also made by the funds appropriated by the Institute. The shares are not subject to any annual tax, and are transferable at the pleasure of the share holders, subject to the approbation of the library committee. The terms of this library, it is believed, are more liberal than any other institution of the kind in the United States. About three thousand volumes, most of them books of great value, have been collected, and the list of subscribers is rapidly mcreasing. Library Committee.-T. B. Wakeman, George Sullivan, Joseph Titcomb, Jonathan Amory, Elijah Paine. REPOSITORY OF THE ARTS, The Institute has resolved to establish a Repository of the Arts at 187 Broadway, for the continued exhibition of machines, models, and drawings of inventions, specimens, &c. of American productions. The library will be kept at the same place. |