SOLON ROBINSON, 1841 265 



Formation of National Society of Agriculture 



[Chicago Union Agriculturist, 1:71-72; Sep., 1841 1 ] 



[September 6, 1841] 

 Address to the Friends of this Measure throughout 

 the United States. 



Having arrived in Washington city, upon my proposed 

 tour of observation, and having found by personal inter- 

 view and extensive correspondence, an almost unbounded 

 desire among the Agriculturists of the country that a 

 National Society should be formed at an early day, it was 

 concluded to call a few of the leading friends of the 

 cause together for consultation. 



Agreeably to notice given on the morning of the 4th 

 inst. a very respectable meeting of real friends, was held 

 in this afternoon in the great entrance hall of the Patent 

 Office : every facility for that purpose having been most 

 cheerfully afforded by the Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth, 

 Commissioner of Patents, of whom the country can truly 

 boast a most decided friend of agricultural improvement. 



The following are minutes of the proceedings : 



"The meeting was called to order by the Hon. Mr. 

 Ellsworth, who stated to the assemblage that Solon Rob- 

 inson, Esq., of Indiana, was then present — and that as 

 Mr. Robinson was looked upon as the original projector 

 of the measure upon which those present had met to con- 

 sult, he moved that the meeting be organized by calling 

 Mr. Robinson to the chair. The motion being seconded 

 by Mr. Callan, 2 was put by Mr. Ellsworth, and carried 

 by acclamation. Whereupon Mr. Robinson took the chair, 

 and after offering his thanks to the meeting for the 

 honor conferred upon a stranger in the city of Washing- 

 ton, at the solicitation of several gentlemen present, Mr. 



1 Printed also in Tippecanoe Journal and Lafayette Free Press, 

 Lafayette, October 13, 1841, and in part in Albany Cultivator, 

 8:153 (October, 1841). See also Western Farmer and Gardener, 

 3:4 (October, 1841). 



2 John F. Callan, druggist and seedsman, Washington, D. C. 



