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The secretary read the following translations, &c., made by him, 

 from the latest works received by the Institute, viz : 



''Paris Dec. 1, 1857. 



''Mr. President: I have the honor to inform you, that having 

 acquired a large garden in a delicious situation, at Hyeres, in the 

 Department of the Var, I intend to make it an experimental one, 

 to grow and raise seeds from all such seeds, plants and exotics, 

 which can be made to do so in this northerly position, so that 

 those W'hich abound in southerly regions may be acclimated here. 

 And for that end, I oifer to all horticultural and agricultural 

 societies, and to botanical societies, and to individual amateurs, 

 ■who shall send me seeds, plants, &c., &c., to grow them, and to 

 give to the donors half the profits I can make of them. 



" I am a proprietor and no dealer. My sole object is to render 

 service to the world, by developing and propagating rare and 

 useful plants I have an able gardener to take charge of every- 

 thing. Address me, (LUCAS,) at No. 20 Rue Basse du Rempart, 

 with seeds, &c." 



[Extract from the report of the Horticultural Society of Saint Oermain en Layc, twelfth 

 exhibition, sitting of 22d September, 1857.] 



" His excellency, the Minister of Agriculture, and the Agricul- 

 tural committee of Toulon, award M. Lucas much praise for his 

 true, living and imperishable Herbariums. Toulon gives him the 

 medal of honor." 



SEA WEED— (JV/rtrme JJlgce.) 



The very valuable Society of England " The Society of Arts 

 and of the Institutions in Union," London, 1857, says : 



The subject has been lost sight of by the council this year, ex- 

 cept that information is invited as to the methods of the Chinese 

 in preparing sea-weeds for food. 



Sea weed occupies the largest geographical range of any known 

 vegetable, and as yet applied to the least purpose. A valuable 

 paper recently appeared in the Edinburgh Philosopliical Journal, 

 by the scientific Dr. Davey, F. R. S. Dulse, or rhodomenia, Pal- 

 mata, of Greville, is called also Dylick, or Dellish, or dullisg or 

 water-leaf It is nutritious but sudoriffic — smells like violets — 

 is used for food by Northern nations. The people of Ireland eat 

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