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tween Plombieres and Luxeuil (on the upper Saone), told us re- 

 cently that before 1847 that Commune (parish) supplied eight 

 hundred thousand litres (about 200,000 gallons, equal tp 2,000 

 hogsheads of Kirsch wasser — cherry water) of the first quality, but 

 for the last five or six years the frosts have so destroyed the cher- 

 ries that many proprietors talk of rooting their trees out. 



New conquests can be gained by intelligent practice among 

 pomologists, and we appeal to them, wherever they be, to look 

 into it. 



Mr. Robinson remarked that the number of members attending 

 to-day is less than usual, but if our doctrines be good the world 

 will hear of it. Dr. Beecher's sermons are not to his congrega- 

 tion alone, but to the readers of an hundred thousand Tribunes 

 or other papers. 



Subject adopted for the next meeting : " Summer Management 

 of Farm Manure." 



The Club then adjourned to May 9 (Tuesday), at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



May 9, 1854. 

 Present — Messrs. Hooper & Coleman, of Brooklyn, Judge Sco- 

 ville. Captain Holmes, Judge Van Wyck, Dr. Leavitt, Judge R. 

 S. Livingston, Professor Mapes, John Robinson, Mr. Waring, Mr. 

 Berrian of Illinois, Mr. Whiley, Hon John B. Scott, and others. 

 Judge Scott in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following paper, translated and prepared 

 by him. 



A NEW COLONY PROPOSED FOR AUSTRALIA. 



[From the Journal of the Society of Arts. Dec, 1853.] 



The northern coast of Australia is indented by the great Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, which penetrates the interior for 600 miles-, and is 

 300 miles wide; navigation clear ; a fine harbor on its southern 

 shore. Many rivers fall into it. One has been navigated 60 miles 



