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The agricultural exhibition for 1845 took place at Grignon. I 

 sent there three hundred and fifty ewes and four bucks. The 

 first prize was given me and my father, then eighty-six years old, 

 who received it at the hands of the Duke of Nemours, conducted 

 there by his two sons. 



The great general exhibition which took place at Versailles in 

 1851, 1 and my colleague, Monsieur Cugnot, sent there, each of 

 us, three rams ; the first prize was granted to us. 



VICTOR GILBERT. 



Windeville, Commune de Crespieres Seine ef Loire, April 7, 1852. 



DEATH OF CHAS. HENRY HALL. 



At a special meeting of the American Institute, held January 

 15, 1852, at the rooms of the American Institute, No. 351 Broad- 

 way : 



Mr. Nash, announced to the meeting the late decease of Charles 

 Henry Hall, Esq., at his mansion house at Harlem, in this 

 city, and moved that on this subject, a committee should be ap- 

 pointed to prepare resolutions expressive of the sentiments and 

 feelings of the members of the American Institute on this 

 melancholy occasion. 



The Institute thereupon aj^pointed Messrs. Alanson Nash, 

 Ralph Lockwood 'and John A. Bunting, said committee ; and 

 the said committee presented the following preamble and resolu- 

 tions, relative to their deceased friend and brother. 



Preamble. 



During the month of January 1852, the American Institute 

 has been deprived of one of its most distinguished and intelli- 

 gent members. 



Mr. Charles Henry Hall, became a member of the American In- 

 stitute in the year 1835. He was a gentleman of enlightened and 

 elevated sentiments possessed of great mental endowments, and his 



