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to north latitude 40*^, and generally grew to about eight feet in 

 height. Here we find it grow to a greater height. Perhaps our 

 climate, which is almost a fac-simile of that of China, is more 

 favorable to it. The Chinese then (six hundred years ago,) had 

 not been able to make sugar of it. They made only a rich syrup 

 called Jaggri. Some persons arriving there from Cairo, (then 

 commonly called Babylon,) told the Chinese how to make sugar 

 of it, that is, too add to the. syrup ashes of certain woods. Alka- 

 line substances, such as lixivium of wood ashes or some quick 

 lime are now mixed with the boiling syrup towards the end of 

 the boiling. Our sugar makers ought to be asked to try it. I am 

 not able to decide, — they are. Caromel always crystalizes to 

 some extent. Grape sugar on a raisin shows this plainly, and 

 that too in quite a large proportion to the real uncrystalizable 

 molasses. But let us try ! It will be a sioeet victory for all 

 nations of the temperate zone to grow their own syrup onlyj but 

 the sugar will crown that eminent success. 



Solon Robinson remarked that when experiments were made on 

 making sugar from our Indian corn stalks, it was found necessary 

 to do it before the ears of corn matured. He observed that all 

 sugarcane has the wax, or kerosene mentioned; but he pitied the 

 poor creature who should be condemned to scrape it off. 



Dr. Smith — Can chemical science add to the amount of wax on 

 sugar cane ? 



Professor Mapes spoke interestingly on the subject of sugar — 

 remarking among other things that when the finest loaf sugar was 

 churned with some Avater, it could never be crystal ized again. 



The Professor spoke as to the theory entertained by him of pro- 

 gressive refinement of plants and animals by using those elements 

 which have been appropriated by them hundreds or thousands of 

 times. He again recalled the Eglinton Tournament, where the 

 modern Englishmen tried to get into ancient armor, and found 

 it too small for them — to tlie horses on the Elgin marbles, very 

 inferior to the modern — to the old ox of England,- hardly a fourth 

 the size of the modern ox of the market. 



Dr. Waterbury hoped that opportunity would be afforded him 

 to show the errors of this new theory, and he would prove that all 

 history is against it. 



Dr. Smith said we have recently heard this idea touched here 

 several times already. 



Mr. Greeley asked for a special committee to examine Hedge's 

 new steam boiler for cooking feed for stock, &c. 



The Chair appointed Messrs. Greeley, Pardee and Olcott, 



