726 [ASSEMBLT 



Monographie De La Pomrae De Terre. 



Bonjean, Paris, &c., 1846. 



Translation by H. Meigs, Sept. 14th, 1847. 



In summing \ip the analysis of the potato made by several chem- 

 ists, we find that it contains the following principles- 



1. Starch. 



2. Peculiar animal matter. 



3. Bitter aromatic resin. 



4. Parenchyma, (fibrous matter). 



5. Solanin. 



6. Asparagine. 



7. Colored albumen. 



8. A sugar principle, 



9. A gum do 



10. Citrate of lime. 



11. do of potash. 



12. Phosphate of do 



13. do of lime. 



14. Free citric acid. 



15. Silica. 



16. Alumine 



17. Magnesia. 



18. Manganese. 



19. Oxide of iron. 



20. lode. 



21. Brome. 



22. Waler of vegetation. 



H Meigs presented the following: 



THti: HORSES OF FRANCE. BY LIEUT. GE.V COUNT GIRAKDLV. 



To the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce of France. 



Puris, 1S44. 



Vol. presented by the Minister, by the hands of Mr. Alexander 

 Vattemare, to the American Institute. 



Trauslaled by Henry Meigs, Secretary of the Farmers' Club, Sept. 13lb, 1847. 



France has about three millions of horses. 



The annual renewal requires (at about ten per cent.) three hun- 

 dred thousand horses. For this three hundred thousand mares are 

 necessary, and six thousand stallions. 



