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Mr. Meigs gave the following brief history of these fishes : 

 Cyprinus Carpio, the common Carp, and Cyprinus Auratus, Gold 

 Pish. Carp— olive green, yellowish beneath, oval and dorsal 

 spines, strong and denticulated. Carp, brought to England in 

 1814, was naturalized in Germany and Sweden about 1564. The 

 Gold fish originated in a lake near Mount Tsienking, in the pro- 

 vince of the Kiang, 30° lat., China. Carp may be carried in wet 

 cloth, witli a small piece of bread steeped in brandy in his mouth, 

 considerable distance to other ponds. Carp taken occasionally 

 in the Volga are five feet long ; in some places it has attained 

 forty pounds weight. 



President Tallmadge confirmed the statement as to the growth 

 of the Gold fish, some of whicli had been found recently of about 

 the size of herrings, and that they abound in a bay near Wap- 

 pinger's creek, near his country seat at New Hamburgh. 



Gen. Chandler moved a postponement, to the next meeting, of 

 the subject of Human Food. 



President Tallmadge, after alluding to the growing importance 

 of flax, and the methods now under investigation for such pre- 

 parations of it as will render it capable of being wrought by our 

 present cotton mills, proposed that it be the next subject of con- 

 sideration by the Club, and I wish also that, for the twenty-fourth 

 annual fair, next October, proper discretionary premiums may be 

 offered for tlie Flax. 



Judge Van Wyck moved that Flax be the exclusive subject 

 for next meeting. 



The Club then participated in tasting the fine yellow Fall Pip- 

 pin apples from the Pellham farm, presented by Vice-President 

 Pell, and the Crom, the Snow apple, and the House or Pound 

 apple, presented by Judge R. S. Livingston, also the French Bon 

 Chretien Pear, presented by the Secretary, which was pronounced 

 inferior to several of our own pears. 



EXPERIMENT IN CULTIVATING WHEAT. 



176 West \Wi street, K. F., 3rf FeVy. 1851. 

 My Dear Brother — Sometime in September last, (as I think,) 

 the following paragraph signed Agricola, was cut by our Brother 



