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  1. Returns from Europe with the diploma of M. D. from Edinburgh, obtained
hi 1786—after having been initiated into the  mysteries of Free Masonry,  in the
Latin Lodge of the Roman Eagle, by the famous Joannes Bruno—1787.
  2 Visits Saratoga Springs while surrounded by the forest, and ascertains ex-
perimentally,  that the gas extricated from the water was fixed air, with the pow-
er to extinguish flame, destroy the life of breathing animals, &c. 1787.
  3. Receives the degree of A. M. honorary, from Columbia College—1788.
  4 Walks with Josiah Ogden Hoffman, William Dunlap, Joseph Hunt and oth-
ers, in the very grand procession for celebrating the adoption of the Constitution
of the United States,  under the guidance of Col. Richard Piatt, directing the
place for the Philological Society—1788.
  5  Attends the Treaty at Fort Schuyler, by which the Mingos, or Five Na-
tions of Indians,  sold the great Western District to the people  of New-York, and
subscribed the deed as a witness—1788.  Receives personal names from the
Oneidas and Onondagas.                              . .
  6  Goes to Lower Canada, during Lord Dorchester's administration, and sees,
among other eminent men, William Smith, the historian of New-York-Februa-

FyV  Member of the New-York Legislature, as an assemblyman from his place of
nativity, Queens county,  with Messrs. Schenck and Lawrence-April 1790
  8. Member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia—Feb-

'"^Secretary of the Society for promoting Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures
in New-York February, 1791.  Delivers the annual oration in the Senate Lham-
Lr of the ancient City Hall, before the removal of the government to Albany.
   101  IntoSSfhimilf in procuring a statute to be enacted, for enabling the Re-
genfsoi^rKireSSr to establish^ College of Physicians and Surgeons-March

 17ll" Exerts himself to form a Library in the town upon Long-Island, where  he
 waS born? undeT the name  of the "North Hempstead Library Association;"

 W,j? tg^S^Xw™**** "ed by George Clinton

 "^S^r'ofessor'of Chymistry, Natural History, and Agriculture  * Columbij



 Bu[  US*! A^Je'oUheBnja. Society of Am. nd Sciences at Cape F™,
 cois (since destroyed) December, 1792. 
     15. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh—January, 1793.
     16. Pronounces the oration to the Tammany Society, in the old Presbyterian
   Church  in Wall-street—May 12, 1794.
     17. Exhibits at full length, in a printed Essay, the actual state oflearning in
   Columbia ( ollege—1794.
     18. Physician of  the Grand  Hospital  in New-York, a  situation in which  he
   acted for m^re than twenty years;  and exerted himself during the time in form-
   ing its valuable library—April 1, 1796.
     19. Makes a detailed report to the Agricultural Society,  of his geological and
   mineralogical observations during a tour performed at their request, to the banks
   of the Hudson for Coal, &c—December, 1796—a performance respectfully quoted
   by Count Volney.
I     20. Member of the Assembly for the City  and County of New-York, with
   Messrs.  Fairlie, Hunt, Arcularius, Clinton, Burr, Swartwout, Storm, Robins, and
   Warner—April. 1797.
     21. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held at Boston—
   May, 1797.
     22 Attends at Philadelphia, as a Delegate,  the Convention for the Abolition
   of Slavery—June, 1797.
     23. Engages  with Elihu H. Smith and  Edward Miller, in a periodical work,
   called the Medical Repository,  which,  after passing into other hands,  still sub-
   sists ; being in the progress of the 22d volume—1797.
    24. Honoured  with the address of  the eight  Letters  written by Joseph
   Priestley, LL.  D,  &c. in favour of the Phlogistic Theory of Chymistry, and against
   the new doctrines—(1 and  2 Med. Repository, 1797 and 8.)
    25. Carries  in the bill enabling Robert R. Livingston to navigate the Hudson
   River with Steam-boats—February, 1798.
    26. Makes the  famous motion about the sixth Levitical commandment,  in the
   House of Assembly at  Albany, requiring citizens to labour six days, as well as re-
   frain from it on the  seventh—February, 1798.   (See Journal of the House.)
    27. Corresponding Member of the Historical Society of Massachusetts—Feb-
   ruary, 1798.
    28. Corresponding member of the Academy of Medicine in Philadelphia—June,
   1799.
    29. Delivers the Aniversary Discourse to the assembled citizens  on the Nation-
   al Festival, in  the Presbyterian Church, Beekman-street—July 4, 1799.
(    30. Representative  in the 7th Congress of the United States, for the City  of
   New-York and Kings County—April, 1800.   One of the managers of the Im-
   peachment against John Pickering.
    31. Publishes a chart of Chymical Nomenclature with an explanatory memoir;
   in which he contends that metals in their ductile and malleable  state  are com-
   pounds of a base with hydrogen (phlogiston ;) as in their cakiform state they consist
   of a base with oxygen : and that in several  there is an intermediate condition,  in    |
   which there is no union either with hydrogen or oxygen.   He extended the same
   doctrine to the greater part of inflammable bodies. 1801.
    32. Corresponds with Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, on the purification
  of Ships by Alkalization. Feb. 3, 1802. (5 Med. Rep. p. 455—458.)
    33 Honorary  Member  of the Agricultural  Society of the Bahama Islands-
  September,  1801.
    34. Corresponds with Albert Gallatin,  Secretary of the Treasury, on the project
  for illuminating  the Light Houses of the United States with iuflammable air.
  April 30, 1802. (5 Med. Repos. p.  463—465.)
    35. Member of the  Farmers'Society at Sandy Spring, Montgomery  County,
  Maryland—October, 1801.
    36. Brings in the  bill, shortening the  term for naturalizing aliens,  and making
  them citizens of the United States, from fourteen years to five—February, 1802.
    37. Re-elected  to the House  of Representatives in the 8th Congress, April,
   1802, for New-York County—discusses at great length the subject of Quarantines
   and Health Laws, 
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  38. Corresponding  Member of the Society of the Antiquarians of Scotland,—
May, 1802.
  39.  Receives a letter from  Robert R. Livingston, informing that he had  sent
four Merino  sheep to New-York—Paris, 1st June,  1802—with  a report on the
subject of these animals, made 11th Nicose, 10th  year of the Bonapartean Re-
public.                                                    .  .
  40.  Member of the Culpepper Agricultural  Society in Virginia—November,
1802.                                                      onn
  41. Associate of the Medical Society of London—December, 1802.
  42. Corresponding member  of the institution formed in London for  investigat-
ing the Nature and Cure of Cancer—January, 1803.
  43. President of an Agricultural Society  of Young Men in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania- December, 1803.                                .
   44  Receives a long and circumstantial letter from Robert R. Livingston,  Min-
ister at  Paris, dated 13th July, 1803, wherein the history of the negociation tor
Louisiana is detailed; and  the success of his own and unassisted exertions ex-
plained—December, 1803.                                            ,  „
   45. Corresponds with Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, on the remedy tor
 the dampness of gunpowder,  by purifying the Saltpetre of which it is mauufactur-

 Cd46 Writes1 an introductory Essay to the  American edition of Darwin's  Zoo-
 nomia ;  published in Boston  by Thomas and Andrews-1803.
   47  Brin<rs up the report to the House of Representatives, under which  Lewis
 and *:iark were sent to the Columbia River  and in which the country is claimed
 beyond  the Rocky  Mountains  to the Pacific Ocean, as  part of Louisiana-Feb-

  rU487 Wected to the 9th Congress, as Representative from the counties, of^ew
 York, Richmond and Kings-April, 1804.   Chairman of the Standing Committee

 rf£^™^^                           S-at0ri» ^eCongress of the
  United States  for  five  years, in the place of John Armstrong  sent as Minister
  United Mates,  tor  nve  J*** ovember,   1804.  One of  the Judges of Samuel
  Plenipotentiary  to   riance—i^oveiuuci,   »uw                   o
  Chase  when impeached by  the House of Representatives.
    50 iSroducef tato the House of Representatives the bill requiring  merchant
  vessels  of 75 ton" navigated by  six persons,  to be furnished with medicine
  chests-passed March 2, 1805.                  gouth Carolina_March, 1805.
    £; MeTbe'ofThe'^ntfstates Military Philosophical Society-November,

  180,,i-        .  *»     r;iDc  Smith  Adams, and Stone, on  a committee for
    S3  Acts with M«»*. 0**S mIK Adam            lemMtar)r l0 the act

  SmgprfvS She redemption *&* <*»• * «* «"b"° dCbt " "" U°"
  ted States—January,  1806.            inhabitant* of New-York, for the sue-




  ^1 The 'epeahTthc solicitation of Mr. 1W.  of the acts .mposmS a

  duty on salt—April 21, 1806.                           noxious exhalations of

  mS*?^-*^^*^^ of 18l)6-'-Afte™ards printed lLthe
  Medical Repository- a Baldwin  of Georgia, and Mr. Israel Smith of Vermont,
  J*. mX'ffrom tt Sen" of ^United States  with the annexed docn-

  ^D*££. of'the St, Medical Society of New-York,  «o tie State Med.-

  cal Society at Albany-July. 1806.
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   59. Writes the introduction to the American Edition of Assalini's Observations
 od the Plague, Dysentery and Opthalmy of Egypt, published by T. & J. Swords,
 at New-York.—1806.
   60. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Belles Let-
 tres, and Commerce, at Marseilles—March, 1807. Receives from Consul Cathalan
 their whole quarantine code, &c.
V 61. Professor of Chymistry in the College of Physicians, instituted by the Re-
 gents of the Uuiversity of New-York—April, 1807.
   62. President of the  County Medical Society in New-York—July—1807—suc-
 cessor to Nicholas Romayne.
   63. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Leghorn—
 January, 1808.
   64. Honorary Member of the Orange County Medical Society, in New-York—
 February,  1808.
   65. Member of the Medical Lyceum of Philadelphia—February 7, 1808.
   66. Professor of Natural History; the professorship of chymistry having been
 resigned—March 21, 1808.
   67. States to the Senate of the  United  States, that the Senators and Repre-
 sentatives  in Congress, were requested by a resolution of the Legislature of New-
 York, to represent in the most earnest manner to the National Government, the
 exposed situation  of the port of New-York, and  also  the  destitute condition of
 their Seamen, and the danger of their migrating to foreign countries for employ-
 ment—April 13, 1808.
   68. Becomes a Director of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and continues so un-
 til the time of its dissolution—1808.
   69. Honorary Fellow of the Medieal Society of New-Hampshire—June 1808.
   70. Corresponding member of the Medical Society of Georgia—June, 1808.
   71. Performs with Robert Fulton the first voyage in a Steam-Boat—August, 1808.
   72. Corresponding member of the Society for promoting the Physical  and Natu-
 ral Sciences in Paris—November, 1808.
   73. At the request of the College, delivers a public Eulogy upon Professor Rush,
 one of the  most distiuguished of Fredonian citizens, and his worthy friend.
   74. Trustee of the Public Library for the use of the two Houses of  Congress, at
 Washington—1806 to 1809.  In this service he was associated with Baldwin, Ad-
 ams, Giles, Clay, Randolph, and Dana.
 v 75. Member of  the Legislative Assembly  of  New-York for the  city—April,
 1809.   Associated with Messrs. Farmar, Townsend, Prall, Hegeman, Pell, Brouw-
 er, Van Beuren, Anthony, and Wright.   Serves on the joint Committee for ex-
 ploring the Canal  communication between the Hudson and the Lakes.
   76. Visits Upper Canada, and describes the Mineralogy of Niagara Falls—Sum-
 mer, 1809.
   77. Inspector of the Election for Charter Officers in the 5th Ward of the City
 of New-York—November 21,1809.  Associated with Messrs. Barker and Ireland.
   78. Member of the Philo-Medical Society of New-York—March 9, 1810.
   79. A manager of the Lottery to raise  money for improving the Navigation be-
 low Troy and Waterford, for the benefit of the Fairfield Academy, and other pur-
 poses—March 12,  1810.  Associated with Messrs. Johnson, Kent, Broome and De-
 witt.
    80 Inspector of the Election of State and National Officers in the same place__
 24th April, 1810.  Associated with Messrs. Groshon and Davidson.
 x   81. Representative for the City of New-York, and Richmond and Rockland
 Counties,  in the 11th Congress—June 12, 1810.
    82. Representative for New-York, Richmond, and Rockland, in the  12th  Con-
 gress—June 12, 1810.
    83. Honorary member of the New-York State Medical Society at Albany—Feb-
  ruary 2, 1811.                                                   •
    84. Honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical Society at Preston, Eng-
  land ; of which John RHdd is President, and Rw. Hopkins and Thomas German,
  Secretaries—March 11,1811. 
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  85. A Professor and Trustee of the renovated College of Physicians  and Sur-
geons—April 4,1811.
  86. Fellow of the Wernerian Natural  History Society of Edinburgh, of which
Robert Jameson is President, and Patrick Neill Secretary—April 19, 1811.
  87. Brings up for adoption, by the House of Representatives, a  report  favour-
able to the nascent nations of Spanish America, and full of good wishes towards
them, in their exertions to become free and independent—December 11, 1811.
  88. Makes a speech in favour of a :\avy for the United States, (see Holt's Colum-
bian for February 4, 1812,) in the House of Representatives—January 12,1812.
  89. Visits We4 Point, add writes the History of the memorable occurrences
there, and of the Military Academy—May, 1812.
  90. Visits his friend George Clinton, during his last illness, at the seat of govern-
ment ; and after his death, as Vice President, acts as a member of the joint com-
mittee of the two  Houses  of Congress  to superintend his funeral obsequies—1812.
  91. Visits Harper's Ferry, and describes the Geology of  the Scenery where  the
Potomac and Shenandoah have forced their passage through the  Blue-Mountain
—July 4, 1812.
   92. Member of the Royal Academy for the better advancement of Medicine at
Madrid, in Spain,  of which the Pro-Praeses is Antonio Franseri, the Corresponding
Secretary Casimir Ortega, and the Recording Secretary Ignatius  Lazuriaga—Au-
gust 3, 1812.
  93. Delivers the Anniversary Discourse to  the Historical Society, on the Bot-
any of the two  Americas—November 12, 1812.
  94. Commnnicates  to James Mease, M. D. certain information concerning the lo-
calities for gun-flints in the U. S. January 20,1813. (Archives of Useful Knowledge
Vol. 3. No. 4. p. 356—360.)
  95. Assists as a member of a Committee of Gentlemen in preparing resolves  for
the adoption of the Citizens, expressive of their determination to support the war
 with Great Britain—1813.
  96. Serves repeatedly on the Grand Juries of the State and of the United States.
  97. Acts as a Commissioner under the Navy Department of the United States, for
constructing a Floating  Battery, or heavy vessel of war, to defend the coasts and
harbours of the United States : associated with Messrs. H. Rutgers, Th. Morris,
Oliver Wolcott, and H. Dearborn, agents; with R. Fulton as engineer, and A. and
N. Brown as constructors—1813-14.
   98. Corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
 —March 28, 1814.
   99. Honorary member of the Philadelphia Society for  promoting Agriculture,
 whereof Richard Peters  is President, and James Mease Secretary—April 12,1814.
   100. Member of the American Antiquarian Society, held at Worcester, Massachu-
 setts, whose President is Isaiah Thomas, and Secretary Rejoice Newton—June 1,
 1814.
   101. President  of the Lyceum  of Natural  History in New-York,  for several
 years.
   102. Labours jointly with his patriotic neighbours, with mattock and shovel, in
 the trenches, for  several days, to erect  fortifications against the enemy—1814.
   103. Acts with Hosack and Williamson in layiug the foundation of a Literary and
 Philosophical Society in New-York—1815.   Reads a detailed narrative of the
 Earthquakes in the  United States, and  in foreign parts, during  1811,  '12, and
 '13.  Offers to the same a description and classification of 166 species of Fish,
 chiefly  found  in  the  fresh and salt waters adjacent  to the City of New-York;
 upwards of 40 addititional species were described in Bigelow and Holly's Maga-
 zine, and several more in the Journal of the Philadelphia  Academy of  Natural
 Sciences.
   104. Honorary member of the Linnaean Society of New-England, whose meet-
 ings are held at Boston ;  whereof John Davis is President,  and Jacob Bigelow,  Sec-
 retary—January 28, 1815.
   105. Honorary  member of the Berkshire Society for promoting Agriculture and
 Manufactures, whereof Thomas W. Melville is President, and Samuel D. Colt Sec-
 retary—April  1,  1815. 
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   106. As a member of a Committee, joins his friends in petitioning the Common
 Council for a grant of the building in the North Park, for the  purposes of Litera-
 ture, Science, and Arts.
   107. Pronounces a public Lecture in explanation of Somnium, or Dream, as a
 state different both from wakefulness and sleep—November, 1815.
   108. Appointed by the Faculty of the New-York Hospital, to prepare a Phar-
 macopoeia for that Institution, together with Valentine Seaman—February, 1816.
   109. Returns an answer to his Excellency Wilson Carey Nicholas, President of
 the Literary Fund of Virginia, requesting his sentiments on a plan or system of edu-
 cation for the University about to be erected in that State :  which answer was af-
 terwards printed at Richmond by order of the House of Delegates—July, 1816.
   110. Answers the Treasury Letter of Samuel Harrison Smith, Esquire, Commis-
 sioner of the Revenue, requesting an opinion on the mode of raising money, in the
 best manner, upoli  the distillation of spirits;  which answer was afterwards submit-
 ted to Congress, and printed by order of the House of Representatives—September,
 1816.
   111. Member of the Vermont Medical Society, of which Calvin Deming is Secre-
 tary—October 14, 1816
   112  Member of the Royal Medical Society of Copenhagen, patronized by Fred-
 erick the Sixth,  King of Denmark, &c  and of which Schonheider is President,  and
 O. Bang, Secretary—\ovember 14, 1816.
   113.  A permanent member of the New-York State Medical Society, of which
 John Stearns is President, and Charles D. Townsend Secretary—February 2, 1817.
   114.  Acts as Commissioner under a commission from  the Chancery,  de lunatico
inquirendo, in the case of Don Martin Thompson, Envoy Extraordinary from Bue-
nos Ayres. then confined as a lunatic in the New-York Hospital.
   115.  Acts as a  Juror under a commission from the Chancery,  de lunatico inqui-
rendo, in the case of Count Regnaud de St. Jean D'Angely, then confined as a lu-
natic in the New-York Hospital.
   116.  Acts at various  times as an Inspector of the Elections for Directors, in the
Banks and Insurance Companies where he had an interest.
   117. Makes an  excursion to the region watered by the Wallkill, with  his friend
 Silvanus Miller,  and at Chester they and  their companions succeed in disinterring
a mammoth—August, 1817.
   118. Joins Captain Partridge and other friends, in an excursion to the Neversink
Hills, near Sandy Hook, and aids in correcting a dangerous mistake in  their  alti-
tude, which is in  reality not half so great (less than 300 feet) as had been common-
 ly supposed (600 feet.)
   119. Corresponding member of the Medical Society of New-Orleans;  of which
Dr. Trabuc is President, and Dr. Gerardin Secretary—April 26, 1818.
   120. Orator to the Society for instructing the Deaf and Dumb, in the City Hall
 of New-York, before a very numerous and fashionable audience.
   121. Honorary member of the Newtonian Society in Maryland, of which Robert
 J. Zeltsis Corresponding Secretary—June 7, 1818.
   122.  Brevet from his Excellency De Witt Clinton, LL. D., Governor of New-
York, Captain General, &c, for the office of Surgeon General to the Militia of the
commonwealth—August 5, 1818.
   123. Corresponding member of the Academia dei Georgofili at Florence, in Italy,
whereof Philip Gallizioli is Secretary, and T. D. Nobili Vice-President—Novem-
 ber 17, 1818.
   124. Makes a report to the Commander in Chief, on the medical  aspect  of  the
 Militia, which the latter submits to the two Houses of the  Legislature—February
 4, 1819.
   125.  Member of the  Caesarean  Academy of Naturae Curiosorum at Moscow,  of
 which the Emperor Alexander II. is Patron, Prince Oblonesky President, and Gott-
 helf Fischer and  Stephen Maslow Secretaries—February 15, 1819.
   126. Commission from the Couucil of Appointment, as Surgeon General—Feb-
 ruary 15, 1819. 
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  127. President of the New-York Institution for instructing the Deaf and Dumb,
whereof Samuel Akerly is Secretary—May 22,1819.
  128. Vice-President of the District Convention, which met at Philadelphia,  for
preparing a National Pharmacopoeia, whereof Thomas Parke was President,  and
Lyman Spalding Secretary—June 1, 1819.
  129. Honorary member of the Agricultural Society of North Carolina, whereof
John Branch is President, and Joseph Gales Secretary—June 20, 1819.
  130. Honorary member of the Western Museum Society at Cincinnati, where-
of Daniel Drake is Secretary—July 13, 1819.
  131. Acts with Samuel Wood and Garret K. Lawrence, in recommending to  the
public the Willow-leaved Meadow-Sweet, or Spircca Salicifolia of North America,
as an admirable article for refreshment and health, and as a substitue for  the  tea
of ihina—July, 1819.
  132. Honorary member of the Medical Society for  the District of Columbia,
whereof Henry Huntt is Corresponding Secretary—November 20, 1819.
  133. Member of the American Geological Society at New-Haven, in Connecticut,
whereof William  Maclure is President, aud T. Dwight Recording Secretary—De-
cember—30, 1819.
   134. President of the Convention  which assembled at Washington City, for the
purpose of forming a National Pharmacopoeia, whereof Thomas T. Hewson is Sec-
 retary—January  1, 1820.
   135. Corresponding member of the Physico Medical  Society  at  New-Orleans,
 whereof William N. Mercer is Corresponding Secretary—March 6, 1820.
   136. Professor of Botany and Materia Medica, on a further improvement of the
 Medical College, by the Regents of the University—March 22, 1820.
   137. Honorary  member of the Tennessee  Antiquarian Society,  at  Nashville,
 whereof Francis B. Fogg is Corresponding Secretary—March 27, 1820.
   138. Honorary  member of the Royal Jennerian Society in England, of which the
 Duke of Wellington  is President, aud  Andrew  Johnstone,  LL.  D.  Secretary
 —May 17, 1820.
   139. Attends the public examination of the Cadets at the Military Academy, on
 the request of the Secretary of War—June, 1820.
   140. Vice-President of the New-York County Agricultural Society, with Com-
 modore Chauncey as President—July 27, 1820.
   141. Sends forth a Circular Epistle to the Officers of the Medical Staff, on cer-
 taiu professional objects—November 3, 1820.
   142. Orator for the Agricultural Society, at their semi-annular Fair—November
 4, 1820.
   143. Correspondent of the administration to the Museum of Natural History, at-
 tached to the King's Garden at Paris, whereof M. Desfontaines  is  the Director,
 and L.-Cordier Secretary—January, 1821.                  o.M-u  t  i-
   144. Honorary member  of the Lyceum at Hudson, whereof Llisha Jenkins is
 President, and Austin Abbatt Secretary—February 1, 1821.
    145. President of the State Medical Society at Albany—February b,, 18<!l.
    146. Honorary member of the New-York Nautical  Institution and  Shipmas-
 ters'  Society, whereof Samuel C. Reid is President, and John Buckley Secretary
 —April 9, 1821.                                 „        „  .. .,   D
    147.  Receives a splendid Diamond Ring from the Emperor of all the  Kussias,
 brought by Captain Josiah Barker, through Mr.  Pinckney, the American Charge
 d'Affaire* at St Petersburg^ pursuant to the request of the Minister, Count  Nes-
 selrode—May 23, 1821.                                       fP.   rT,n
    148. President of the New-York County Medical Society, whereof Peter C. lap-
  pen is Secretary—July 4,  1821.
    149. Made Doctor of Laws  by the Alleghany College, atMeadville, Pennsylva-

  Blm'AreMiate of the Royal Society of Sciences. Letters Arts, and Agriculture,
  at Nancy, in France, of which M.  Haldal is President, and M. Lamouroux Secreta-
  ry—July 23, 1821. 
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   T51. Delivers the Annual Oration to the Phi-Beta-Kappa Society of Union Col-
 lege, Schenectady—July 24, 1821.
   152. Is received a member of the same.
   153. Made a member of the Adelphi Society there.
   154  Correspondent of  the Royal and  Central  Society of Agriculture  for
 France,  holding its sittings at Paris; of which Count Neufchateau is President,
 and M. Silvestre perpetual Secretary—August 16, 1321
   155. Honorary member of the London Vaccine  Institution, of which the  Lord
 Mayor, J. T. Thorp, is president, and Hugh Beams, Esq. Secretary—October 18,
 1821.
   156. Gives the public introductory Lecture in the College of Physicians, &c. on
 the life and writings of their late President Samuel Bard, by appointment of the
 Trustees—November 5, 1821.
   157. Honorary member  of  the  Linnaean Society at Paris, whereof M. Thie-
 bault de Beriieaud is perpetual Secretary—November 12, 1821.
   158. Receives from Henry  Middleton, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Uni-
 ted States, in  Russia,  a letter  covering Marochetti's  new  and practical views of
 Hydrophobia from the bites of rabid dogs—Jan 7, 1822.
   159. Receives from fhe Counsellor to  his Majesty Francis of Austria, and Di-
 rector of the Imperial Museum, Charles de Schreibers, at Vienna, a box of the
 most select and interesting minerals of Germany and Hungary—January 11, 1822.
   160. Honorary member of the Phrenological  Society at Philadelphia—May 7,
 1822.
   161.   Honorary Member of the Pittsburgh Medical Society, whereof J. Lewis,
 M. D. is President, and J. Gazzam, M.  D. Corresponding Secretary—May, 8,
 1822.
   162. Corresponding Member of the Imperial and Royal Society of Agriculture
 at Vienna of which Charles  Baron Von Braun is perpetual Secretary, and Joseph
 Baron Von Dietrichstein, President—January 7, 1822.
   163. Corresponding member of the Academic Society of Medicine in Marseilles,
 of which the Chevalier Lautard is President, and Mr. Ducroz Secretary—June 11,
 1822.
   164. Honorary member of the Beth-Gimel-Lamed Society of Meadville, under
 the auspices of the President and Trustees of Alleghany College—July 3,  1822.
   165. Honorary Member  of  the  Lyceum  of Natural History at Catskill;  of
 which James Pierce is President,  and E. Croswell Corresponding Secretary—
 June 20th, 1822.
   166. Corresponding  member of the Chemical and Geological Society of Dela-
 ware ; of which Charles A.  Foote, Esq. is President,   and Calvin Howard M. D.
 Corresponding Secretary,  August 3lst, 1822.
  167. Delivers the address to the New-York County Agricultural Society at
 their fair held  in Haerlem, from the pulpit of the Dutch Church—Nov. 13, 1822.
 168. Pronounces a Philosophical Discourse in St.  Stephen's Chapel, Bowery,  to
 the class formed in that Congregation for cultivating  the  Natural  and Physical
 Sciences ; under  the auspices of the Rector, Dr. Feltus, December 27, 1822.


  The principal  portraits of him are the following : one  by Dunlap in London,
when he was quite young : one by Ames,  in Albany ; one by Boyle, in  Washing-
 ton ;  one by James, for Quebec ; one  by Jarvis,  for S. L. M. himself; and one
by Williams, for Boston.  Another, done by Jarvis, and presented by him  to the
Literary  and Philosophical Society, is considered a very fine  piece. Since  that
time Mr. Rembrandt Peale has executed a likeness, which the connoisseurs  pro-
nounce to be admirable.
  A long time  ago, Scoles executed a small engraving of him from a pencil  minia-
ture by Weaver.
  Of Busts.—The ingenious Mrs.  Piatt  once took his likeness in wax.   After-
wards Coffee moulded one in clay.  Latterly Professor B. Denitt caused one  in
gypsum to be prepared for the College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
 
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  169. Corresponding Member of the Socysty for promoting the  Physical aud
Mathematical Sciences in the new  riepublic of Buenos Ayres.  of  which Philip
Senillosa is President, and Jose de los Reyes Secretary—March  27, 1823
  170. Pronounces  a Discourse on  the  Life  and Waitings of  Sir Charles Lin-
naeus, before the learned and fashionable collection of citizens who assembled at
Prince's justly celebrated Botanical Garden  in Flushing, on May 24, 1823, the
anniversary of the illustrious Swede's Birth-day.
  171.  Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society at Montreal,
of which Stephen Sevvell  is President, and  William Lyons Secretary—Septem-
ber 22, 1823.
  172.  On an invitation from  Albany and a mission from New-York, performs,
after the Venetian example, the ceremony of  marrying the Lakes to the Ocean;
at Albany, on the day of the unprecedented gathering of people to  witness the
src'ie of connecting the Western and Northern Canals with the River Hudson-
October 8. 1823.
  173.  Honorary Member of the Lyceum of Natural History iu the Medical Insti-
tution at Pittstield,  Massachusetts— Xovember 19, 1823.
  174.  President of the New-York Medico-Chirurgical Society—January 1, 1824.
  175.  Acts with William  Bayard,  Charles  King, Charles Wilkes, and a  most
respectable body of other Gentlemen, in a General Committee to receive for and
remit to the  Greeks of the Morea and elsewhere, the money contributed volunta-
rily by the Citizens of the United States, to  aid  them  in their efforts to  free
themselves from the dominion of the Turks and to establish  an independence of
their own—a season of particular excitement among all ranks—Feb.  7, 1824.
  17G.  Honorary Member of the Mechanical and Scientific lnst%tionof New-
York, of which Thomas It. Mercein is Secretary—Feb. 13, 1824. 
 
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