FARMERS' CLUB. 



REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 



March 2d, 1846. 



Judge Livingston in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Col. Edward Clark — Strychnine is a powerful medicine in nervous 

 disease. Being a violent poison, it must be administered in very 

 minute doses, a single drop of it is in many cases too much; it must 

 be in solution much divided; it is an extract from the nux vomica. 

 At the last club, some mistakes occur in the report of my remarks. 

 What I said was as follows, viz: that the affinity of the oxides of 

 iron for the acids was feeble; that the sulphate of iron which had 

 been recommended by a French chemist, was as well as the other 

 salts of iron, readily decomposed by the fixed and volatile alkalies, 

 the alkaline earths, and also by vegetable action, and that its appli- 

 cation would be found generally to be more expensive than that of 

 very dilute sulphuric acid, which when applied to soils, is speedily 

 neutralized, and then exerts a beneficial influence on vegetation. 



H. Meigs. The following translation from the Revue Scientifique, 

 &c., of Paris by him, on the formation of artificial alcaloides was 

 read. 



, From the Revue Scientifique, &c., of Paris, Dec., 1846. 

 On the formation of artificial alcaloides. By JV. E. Koop. 



Study of Botanical Chemistry: This study as relates to all the 

 important plants, would certainly be rich in new and interesting re- 

 sults. The following table contains the native alcaloides discovered 

 up to this time. The constituents of the following are : 



