JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONVENTION OF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN, HELD IN THE COMMON COUNCIL CHAMBER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1830. New York: JONATHAN LEAVITT AND G. & C. & H. CARVILL. William A. Mercein, Printer, No. 240 Pearl street, corner of Burling Slip. 1831. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 88. Be it Remembered, That on the 23d day of November, A. D. 1830, in the 55th year of the Independence of the United States of America, JOHN DELAFIELD, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "Journal of the proceedings of a Convention of Literary and Scientific gentlemen, held in the Common Council Chamber, of the city of New York, October 1830. In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." FRED. J. BETTS, Clerk of the Southern District of New York. Ech PREFACE. In the month of September last, the friends of the University of the city of New York, believing it to be desirable, and that it would prove highly gratifying to all who felt an interest in the important subject of education—that a meeting should be convened, of literary and scientific men of our country, to confer on the general interests of letters and liberal education, and to interchange opinions on these most interesting topics :-they appointed a committee with powers, to invite as far as practicable, the attendance of such individuals, on behalf of the University. The committee appointed, was composed of the Rev. James M. Mathews, the Rev. Jonathan M. Wainwright, the Hon. Albert Gallatin, and John Delafield, Esq. This committee issued the following Circular, addressed to the heads of colleges, and to such |