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giving a list of specimens, principally of birds, collected 

 in California for the Society. 



Dr. J. N. Borland gave a description of a dog brought 

 from Japan by Commodore Perry, and belonging to the 

 breed from which the King Charles Spaniel derives its 

 origin. It was a male of black and white color, of rather 

 large size, and weighing about ten pounds; the forehead 

 was very full and round ; the nose short; the eyes large 

 and far apart; the ears short ; the hair straight and fine ; 

 the tail curled upon its back, as in the Esquimaux dog. 

 It is kept as an imperial pet in Japan. The pair which 

 Commodore Perry obtained cost f 180. The female died 

 on the voyage. 



April 16, 1856. 



The President in the Chair. 



Dr. C. T. Jackson, by request of one of the members, 

 gave an account of the method now employed by the 

 Narraganset Fish Guano Company, in the extraction 

 of oil from Menhaden, and of converting the residual 

 matter into a substitute for Guano. 



He said that the manufacture of oil, and of artificial guano 

 from fishes, had long been practised in France, where the fish 

 called Merlan was employed for this purpose, and yielded but one 

 and a half or two per cent, of oil, while the Menhaden is a 

 much fatter fish, and produces oil more abundantly. In France, 

 the fish-cake remaining after the extraction of oil, is dried at 

 a steam heat, and is then ground fine, and packed in air-tight 

 casks for sale as a manure. 



The Narraganset Company are engaged in similar processes, 

 in the conversion of their fish-cake into manure. They first steam 



