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Corps and the Guards, and soon contracted for one million 

 of these sausages, assuring to the inventor a premium of 

 thirty-five thousand thalers. Before the needs of the 

 government were supplied, Engelhard's manufactory pro- 

 duced about nine million pounds of "Erbs wurst." They 

 are made from ground peas and fat pork intimately mixed, 

 and compressed into a large intestine. They are in size 

 from five to eight inches long and three inches in diameter. 

 A section three inches long from one of these cylin- 

 drical masses, when dissolved in boiling water, furnishes 

 a hearty meal for one man, containing as it does a suita- 

 ble proportion of vegetable and animal food. 



These specimens presented to the Institute were given 

 to the donor by Fraulein von Bismarck, a cousin of 

 Prince Bismarck, who with self-denying patriotism im- 

 itated by many German ladies of noble family, had left 

 her comfortable home to watch over the interests of the 

 wounded soldiers at the hospital barracks at Berlin. 

 There she took charge of the cooking department which 

 was a pattern of system and cleanliness. From the stores 

 she presented these specimens of condensed food, which 

 are now, according to a pledge to her, deposited in the 

 historical collections of the Institute. 



The manufactory which furnished the "Erbs wurst" 

 employed two thousand men at one time, produced one 

 hundred and twenty thousand pounds of "Erbs wurst," 

 and two hundred thousand pounds of other conserves, 

 and worked over the flesh and bones of six thousand oxen. 



The secretary presented also specimens of silver ore 

 from the mines of Saxon Freiberg, giving at the same 

 time an account of a descent into these mines. 



F. W. Putnan gave a very clear and instructive de- 

 scription of the process of manufacturing type. 



