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 370 NEW YORK (STATE) NAME OF INSTITUTION. Where situated. Date of charter. Denomination. Number of instructors. Numberof students. 118 66 125 101 66 iio 4T 4 42 87 9 17 80 126 23 218 SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE. Albany Syracuse. 1839 1872 1868 Regular 8 16 80 10 College of physiciansand surgeons, Syracuse universi- ty (formerly Geneva medical college, founded in 1834) Brooklyn. H Buffalo H SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE. College of agriculture and mechanic arts, Cornell Ithaca 1865 Engineering school, Union college Eensselaer polytechnic institute. .... Schenectady. . Troy 1826 18 6 2 4 6 4 3 1 6 3 22 SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY. Auburn theological seminary Auburn 1820 1860 1819 1816 1853 1835 1850 Presbyterian Episcopalian Baptist De Lancey divinity school Geneva Hartwick theological seminary Hartwick Seminary Buffalo Lutheran. . Martin Luther college Lutheran United Presbyterian Baptist Newburgh theoloical seminary. Newburgh Rochester theological seminary Rochester St. Joseph's provincial seminary Troy Roman Catholic Universalist Roman Catholic St. Lawrence theological school .... Canton 1856 1863 Seminary of Our Lady of Angels Niagara City Union university, comprising Union college in Schenectady, the Albany medical college, and Dudley observatory, was incorporated in 1873. For the United States military academy, see MILITARY SCHOOLS. The state agricultural col- lege is connected with Cornell university, and is described in the article on that institution. Full details of other colleges mentioned above are also given in special articles on the re- spective institutions. The whole number of newspapers and periodicals reported by the census of 1870 was 835, having an aggregate circulation of 7,561,497, and issuing annually 471,741,744 copies. There were 87 daily, with a circulation of 780,470; 5 tri-weekly, 5,800; 22 semi-weekly, 114,500; 518 weekly, 3,388.497; 21 semi-monthly, 216,300; 163 monthly, 2,920,810; and 19 quarterly, 135,120. CHARACTER. Number. Volumes. State 2 66019 Town, city, &c 130 173 236 Court and law ... 26 77535 School college &c 9875 1 165158 Sabbath school 3105 994 627 Church. . 486 253' 163 Charitable and penal institutions Circulating 1 144 5,000 790 181 The largest public libraries of the state, with the number of volumes in 1874, are given in LI- BRARY, vol. x., p. 405. The whole number of religious organizations in 1870 was 5,627, hav- ing 5,474 edifices with 2,282,876 sittings, and property valued at $66,073,755. The leading denominations were represented as follows : These were further classified as follows : PUBLICATIONS. Num- ber. Copies annu- ally issued. Circulation. Advertising 17 10 12 50 103 6 487 90 4 56 1,378,800 7,621,800 1,161,200 13,778,600 72,448,180 1,606,800 823,171,724 40,798,240 2,780,000 6,996,400 89,900 307,150 47,600 326,950 2,047,865 23,800 2,268,532 2,095,120 65,000 289,580 Agricultural and horticultural. Benevolent and secret socie- ties Commercial and financial Illustrated, literary, and mis- cellaneous Devoted to nationality Political Religious Sporting Technical and professional. . . In 1874 there were reported 98 daily, 5 tri- weekly, 20 semi-weekly, 681 weekly, 2 bi- weekly, 26 semi-monthly, 201 monthly, 4 bi- monthly, and 18 quarterly; total, 1,055. The total number of libraries of all classes reported by the federal census of 1870 was 20,929, con- taining 6,310,352 volumes; 7,158 with 2,785,- 483 volumes were private, and 13,771 with 3,524,869 were other than private. The latter were distributed as follows : DENOMINATIONS. Organi- zations. Edi- fices. Sittings. Property. Baptist, regular 817 795 809 811 $7 439 850 " other 85 84 23,775 162,925 Christian Congregational 95 268 95 256 28,175 111 785 224,850 2 732 500 Episcopal, Protestant Evangelical Association. . . Friends 475 25 89 465 25 87 204,920 7,800 24,910 7,211,lS 228,850 596800 47 83 21400 1 831 950 Lutheran 190 182 70,133 1,560.500 Methodist 1,745 1,702 606,098 11,768,290 Miscellaneous . 2 1,000 30600 Moravian(Unitas Fratrum) New Jerusalem (Sweden- borcrian) 6 4 6 3 3,000 1,950 134,600 175.000 Presbyterian, regular " other Reformed church in Ameri- ca (late Reformed Dutch) Reformed church in the United States (late Ger- man Reformed) Roman Catholic Second Advent 672 54 304 9 455 17 656 49 800 8 453 11 325,780 24,090 147,033 3,450 271,285 3120 12,786,900 644,140 7,076,250 184,000 8,558.150 45650 Shaker 3 3 2300 23000 3 2 580 31000 Unitarian United Brethren in Christ. Universalist 22 7 124 19 6 120 8,850 1,850 41 610 715>00 10,200 1 155,950 Union (local missions) Unknown. . . 14 93 14 98 7,000 82.801 580,900 216,050