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Mr. Boyd, from Fond du Lac, presented wine made by him from the 

 petioles of rhubarb which was pronounced very pleasant — no alcohol 

 in it. 



Mr. Fuller's berries were from seedlings of August, 1856 — one of them 

 (the berry,) almost an inch in diameter. His practice in raising seedlings 

 generally is remarkably successful. 



Mr. Prince has raised fifty-five seedling strawberries, of which he has 

 exhibited the berries of sixteen, some of them very fine, viz : No. 12, 

 Cordova ; No. 26, Eclipse, ripens all at once ; No. 35, Imperial 

 crimson; No. 36, Imperial scarlet; No. 60, Prince's globose; No. 

 CI, Prince's climax; No. 69, Prince's scarlet magnate; No. 77, Supreme 

 staminate ; No. 79, Sylvania ; No. 81, Transcendant scarlet ; No. 93, Tri- 

 umphant scarlet ; No. 107, Prince's blush pine ; No. 42, Ladies' pine, the 

 most exquisite of all strawberries; No. 1301, New seedling ; No. 41, Le 

 Baron, very high flavor. 



Subject — Dr. Waterbury's Physiology, and the others continued. 



The club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



June 28, 1858. 



Present — Messrs. Bruce, Doughty, Dr. Peck, Prof. Mapes, Prof. Nash,. 

 Dr. Waterbury, Gr. P. Pell, Don Fermier Feirer, late President of Nica- 

 ragua ; Messrs. Turell, John W. Chambers, Wm. B. Leonard, Adrian Ber- 

 gen and Hon. John Gr. Bergen, of Gowanus ; DavoU, Pardee, Dr. AVard«, 

 H. P. Byram, of the Valley Farmer ; T. W. Field, F. W. Geissenhainer,, 

 Jr., Paine, Hite, Solon Robinson — fifty members in all. 



Prof. Nash in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



INSECTS AND THEIR STRUCTURE. 



Dr. Waterbury explained the structure and natural formation of animala 

 and insects, of great value, but of which we can give only an imperfect sy- 

 nopsis. He stated in regard to the caterpillar, that as simple as it appears,, 

 it is made up of a complete system of nerves, extremely sensitive, by which 

 it is able to distinguish the kind of food suited to its taste, and to avoid 

 every thing ofi'ensive. Advantage can be taken of this truth by the farmer,, 

 as it often is, and obstructions placed in the way of their ascent of fruit 

 trees. He said that it was only by the study of the simple structure of 

 insects that we can counteract the injuries to vegetation. He also illus- 

 trated the structure of the lobster, and how they breathe and take suste- 

 nance, and showed how little men knew of these animals who have handled 

 them all tJieir lives. By a dissected lobster he showed several interesting 

 facts connected with the structure of animals of a low order, and how those 

 useful may be propagated, and how the noxious ones may be exterminated. 

 He illustrated by words and diagrams the difference between vertibrae and 



