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fresh and raw; a leg of mutton, cooked; a piece of beef, /re^A; a 

 piece of beef, raw; a piece of ^ox^^ fresh; a piece of pork, raw; 

 fish, raw; fish, cooked; a lump of butter, fresh; no salt or other 

 condiment — like the meats and fish; one dozen eggs, fresh. 



Proof authentic will be furnished. 



Many new varieties of turnip and cabbage seeds sent from the 

 United States Patent Ofiice by Mr. D. Jay Browne of that depart- 

 ment, have been distributed, and the receivers requested to return 

 specimens and the success of cultivating them. Mr. John W. 

 Chambers, the clerk of the Institute has attended carefully to their 

 distribution. 



Prof. Mapes invited the members to visit his farm on some Sat- 

 urday, when he is at home, to exhibit his dwarf pears in fine 

 bearihg, and the triumph of his deep plowing, sub-soiling and 

 under draining, in resisting the recent severe drought of many 

 weeks continuance. Not a vegetable on his farm has sufl'ered, and 

 the farm exhibits a marked contrast with the adjacent farms, suf- 

 fering wit]i drought. 



The Club ordered the "butter for the city'' and the "bread for 

 the city" and "steam plows," to be taken up at the next meeting, 

 August 19th. 



Mr. William E. Prince, of Flushing, Long Island, invites the 

 Club to visit his gardens and see 40,000 Dioscorea batatas, the 

 vines growing, some 13 feet high, trained on pcjles. 



Paul Stillman cannot attend, having lost his right foot by am- 

 putation, recently. He found advantage in the certificate of mem- 

 bership of the American Institute, when wrongly arrested for a 

 Mexican, at La Vera Cruz. Mr. S. desires to prepare a complete 

 view of ice-houses. 



Mr. Martin E. Thompson presented certificates proving the 

 superior good quality of the guano lately received from the newly 

 discovered United States guano islands. 



The Club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



August 19, 1856. 



Present — Messrs Amos Gore, of Bloomfield,N. J., Solon Robin- 

 son, James K. Fisher, Martin E. Thompson, Adrian Bergen, of 

 Gowanus, L. I , Judge Van Wyck, Mr. Pepper, Mr. Andrews, 

 T. W. Field, of Brooklyn, Mr. Pardee, Wm. B. Leonard and 

 others, — thirty-three members. 



Martin E. Thompson in the chair. H. Meigs, Secretary. 



