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the Society took parcels of the feeds, with a view of making 

 experiments on their growth j and were directed to report the 

 event of them, at the next feflion. 



Mr. De La Bigarre reported from his enumeration and ex- 

 periment, that a pound of large red Clover-Seed contains about 

 two hundred and fix thoufand grains ; and a pound of Lucern- 

 feed contains about one hundred and two thoufand. 



The Prefident prefented a memoir by Mr. De La Bigarre, re- 

 lative to the nature, cultivation and produce of feveral fpecies 

 of graffes, chiefly from his own experience. 



Mr. De La Bigarre prefented a letter from the Prefident of 

 the United States to the Prefident of the Society, expreflive of 

 hk pleafure on hearing of the ellabHlliment and progrefs of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Mitchill prefented a letter from Mr. Valentin of Cape- 

 Fran9ois, together with the following donations : to wit — i. 

 The Charter, lift of members and minutes of the proceedings 

 of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Saint Domingo — 

 2. The firft volume of their Tranfadions and one of their pub- 

 lic orations — 3. Travels to Guaxaca, by Monfieur Menonville, 

 with a treatife on the cultivation of nopal, and the management 

 of the cochineal-infeft, 2 vols. 8vo. with coloured plates — 4. A 

 pamphlet on the difeafe called Tetanus, compiled and publiihed 

 by order of that Society. 



