believes that the extensive circulation of the record of the two
events so interesting and important to the cause of Science will
exercise a beneficial influence upon the public mind. The effort
of the distinguished Statesman who has invested Astronomy with
new beauties, is the latest and one of the most brilliant of
his compositions, and is already wholly out of print, though
scarcely a month has elapsed since the date of its delivery.
The account of the proceedings at Albany during the Ceremonies
of Inauguration is necessarily brief, but accurate, and is
respectfully submitted to the consideration of the reader.

A. MAVERICK.
NEW YORK, _October 1, 1856._




TWO NEW INSTITUTIONS OF SCIENCE;

AND

THE SCENES WHICH ATTENDED THEIR CHRISTENING.


In the month of August last, two events took place in the city of
Albany, which have more than an ephemeral interest. They occurred in
close connection with the proceedings of a Scientific Convention,
and the memory of them deserves to be cherished as a recollection of
the easy way in which Science may be popularized and be rendered so
generally acceptable that the people will cry, like Oliver Twist, for