viil INTRODUCTION. 



Dr. Mitchill communicated to the Society, a memoir of 

 Mr. Ezra L'Hommedieu, on the method of catching porpoifes 

 and manufadiiring their Ikins into leather, at the eaft end of 

 Long-Illand ; and a memoir on the culture of daify-grafs on 

 exhaufled foils j and a memoir on the improvement of impo- 

 verifhed lands by fowing clover ; and alfo a hiflory of his 

 experiments on manuring land with drift-fea-weed, green 

 fea-weed and Indian fliells : — And alfo ah eflay on hedges and 

 ditches, with a view of the caufes of the deflruftion of prim 

 and white-thorn hedges, in the towns of Eafl-Hampton and 

 South-Hampton in Suffolk county, Long-Ifland ; and propofmg 

 to fupply their place with the native thorn of our country. 



Mr. Recorder Jones communicated an eflay written by Peter 

 De La Bigarre, on the making of hedges and inclofures with 

 white-mulberry-trees, founded on experience of their utility in 

 France ; and of their ufe at the fame time in affording food for 

 filk- worms on their leaves in the open air : — 



Alfo a memoir on the importance of agricultural inftitutions 

 and on the propriety of applying to the legiflature during the 

 prefent feffion for an ad; of incorporation. 



A fpecial meeting was called in purfuance of Mr. De La 

 Bigarre's propofal, and a committee appointed to apply to 

 the legiflature for an ad of incorporation. The ad is in the 

 following words : — viz. 



