256 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



July 7, 1857. 



Present — Messrs. Pardee, Dr. Waterbury, Mr. Stacey, Mr. John 

 V. Brewer, Dr. Wellington, Prof. Nash, Dr. Smith, Solon Robin- 

 son, Prof. Hildreth and others — 27 members. 



Dr. Waterbury in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Mr. Meigs read the following translations and extracts made by 

 him from documents received by the Institute by the steamers, 

 &c., since the last meeting, viz : 



[Journal D'Agriculture Pratique, Second Partie, DeLaMaiBon Rnstique, Du 19th Siecle 

 Quatrionne Scrie, Tome 7th, 5th Juin, 1857.] 



Presented to the American Institute by Mons. Alexander Vat- 

 temare. 



Statistics of the State of New-York are given by Mons. Vatte- 

 mare, in which he includes a catalogue of seeds prepared for the 

 World's Agricultural Fair of Paris, for 1857, by Col. B. P. John- 

 son, Secretary of the New-York State Agricultural Society. They 

 were fine samples of our wheat, rye, Indian corn 13 sorts, barley, 

 oats, buckwheat, timothy, clover, flax, millet, pumpkin, peas, 

 beans, in all their varieties; with a fair statement of the agri- 

 cultural capacity of the State in all respects — the number of farms, 

 and their general productions. 



Mr. Vattemare says that the State of New- York has giants in 

 her agricultural children, and they keeping pace with her indus- 

 trial economy — every county having its agricultural society — the 

 central one being that of the State, at the seat of government, Al- 

 bany. That the American Institute, the society of encouragement 

 of the State, presides in all the exhibitions of agriculture and hor- 

 ticulture, annually, in the city of New- York, and gives (like the 

 central society at Albany,) an immense impulse to the progress, 

 from day to day, of those two societies — a progress whose grandeur 

 has no perceptible limits — for the treasures of our " Alma Mater," 

 mother earth, are inexhaustible. 



The Regents of the University of New- York, publish very inter- 

 esting works in this line. 



We cannot better close our observations on New- York, than by 

 rendering to her that homage which is due to her, especially for 

 that magnificent work with which she has endowed the Itarned 

 world, (monde savant.) We speak of the Natural History of New- 



