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Point, Ind. ; .T. S. Wirgh, Chicago, JU ; Thomas B. Stevenson, Ky. ; 

 Mr. Botts, Richmond, Va. ; Dr. Mears, Cambridge, Md. ; C. J. Hal- 

 court, Newcastle, Del. ; Mr Manny, Fayetteville, N. C. ; Wm. Gregg, 

 Charleston, S. C. ; A. E. Ernest, Macon, Ga. ; Thomas Douglass, 

 Jacksonville, E. Fa. ; Alfred Hennen, New-Orleans, La. ; Thomas 

 Afflick, Washington, Miss. ; Judge Carr, St. Louis, Mo. ; Mark R. 

 Cochrill, Nashville, Tenn. ; Chas. F. Keller, Washington, D. C. ; 

 John King, Iowa ; S. Perry, Texas. 



The president next announced the names of J. S. Skinner, H. 

 Meigs, and Edward Clark, as the central committee. 



Mr. Robinson said that this committee were appointed to gather up 

 information from all parts of the country preparatory to next year's 

 convention, and that their report would form an exceedingly interest- 

 ing feature in its proceedings. He hoped they would bear this in 

 mind in all their investigations and researches. 



Judge Meigs remarked, that this convention should extend its vi- 

 sion far and wide, not confining themselves to these States or this 

 Continent. The Emperor of Russia had recently caused to be open- 

 ed a correspondence with Farmers' Clubs every where. 



He (Mr. M.) had endeavored to keep his eye upon the various 

 agricultural organizations, but he was not able to keep pace, such the 

 rapidity with which such societies are forming in every part of the 

 known world. 



The chairman of the committee to prepare an address to the peo- 

 ple of the United States, submitted the following as their report, 

 which was unanimously adopted, and referred to the publishing com- 

 mittee, and through it to the American Institute. 



To thefrie7ids of improvement in the science of agriculture, horticul- 

 ture and silk culture in the United States : 



The convention of delegates representing these important interests, 

 now holding their third annual meeting under the call of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of New-York, address their brethren who have not the 

 good fortune to be with us upon this occasion, to congratulate them 

 upon the fact that the course of improvement in the cultivation of the 



