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verse: "And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb 

 (plant) yielding seed— the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, 

 whose seed is in itself, upon the earth, and it was so." 



Verse 12th : " And the earth brought forth grass and herb 

 (plant) yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, 

 whose seed was in itself after his kind : and God saw that it was 

 good." Third day. 



Verse 20th — 5th day : "And God said let the waters bring forth 

 abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may 

 fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." 



Verse 21st: " And God created great whales, and every living 

 creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, 

 after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind, and God 

 saw that it was good." 



Sixth day — Man is created. 



Seventh — The work being finished — Sabbath. 



And it was finished ! All following ages can testify that not so 

 much as a single grain of mustard seed, or the most minute insect 

 have ever been produced any other way than that as the great 

 method. The growth of offsets from plants or their roots form no 

 objection whatever to that, because the original is seed. 



William Lawton of New Rochelle, was much pleased with Mr. 

 Field's practical illustration of the peculiar growth ol the same 

 tree to different circumstances. 



Cranberry beans and Mexican white flint corn, given by Messrs. 

 Olcott and Vail, and Lima beans given by Amos Gore of Jersey. 



The Secretary remarked, that he supposed the Mexican corn 

 well worth trying, because of the peculiar character of the place 

 where it grew, viz : on the grand lofty plateau of Mexico, about 

 six thousand feet above the level of the sea. 



The same subjects were continued. 



The Club adjourned at 3 o'clock p. m. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



