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Except those who take part in the proceedings of the Club, the names 

 of gentlemen in attendance are necessarily excluded. The large numbers 

 now usually present, renders any mention of individual names invidious, 

 even if the space occupied by their frequent repetition were not otherwise 

 objectionable. 



Among those who contributed to the general interest and usefulness of 

 the Club during the year, by their presence and participation in the pro- 

 ceedings, were the following gentlemen : 



Robert L. Pell, Professor Renwick, W. Lawton, Jno. Gr. Bergen, A. S. 

 Fuller, Judge Doughty, and Dr. Trimble, of New Jersey; Rev. Dr. Adam- 

 son, from the Cape of Good Hope ; R. Gr. Pardee, Lieut. Bartlett, T. W. 

 Field, W. S. Carpenter, Messrs. Chilson, Provost, Treadwell, Berrian, 

 Veeder, Bruce, Robinson, Church, Peek, Burgess, Underhill, P. G. Ber- 

 gen, A. Bergen, P. S. Titus, Montgomery, Holton, Waterbury, Quinn, 

 Leonard, Prof. Hedrick, Davoll, Kingsbury, Wright, Wheeler, Dodge, 

 Cavanach, Young, Witt, Meigs, Ireland, Holton, Andrews, J. Blunt, Nash, 

 Hite, Maxwell, Wakeman, Professors Mapes, Nash, and others. 



Communications on any subject connected with agriculture, or letters of 

 inquiry relating to farming or any of the kindred branches of agricultural 

 or rural pursuits, may be addressed to the ''''President,^'' or to the '^Com- 

 mittee on Agric2flt2ire," of the American Institute, or to the undersigned. 



THOMAS McELRATH, Cor. Secretary. 



American Institute Rooms, New York, April, 1860. 



The Report of the American Institute made to the Legislature last year, 

 and which forms the volume of Transactions for 1858, contains the pro- 

 ceedings of the Farmers' Club up to and including their meeting of the 

 11th day of April, 1859. 



On the 9th day of May, 1859, at the new temporary repository of the 

 American Institute, corner of Fourth avenue and Eighth street, (Cooper 

 Union Building,) the Farmers' Club convened in the room assigned them 

 by the committee. 



Present — Forty-nine members. Hon. Robert L. Livingston in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Meigs, the secretary, presented and read the following selections 

 made by him from the works recently received at the Institute : — 



CALIFORNIA. 



Report of the Second Industrial Exhibition, by the Mechanics' Insti- 

 tute, San Francisco, from the 2d to the 26th of September, 1858. 



GRAPES. 



" California will be one, if not the best, of the wine-growinw countries 

 in the world. From San Diego to Shasta, and from Monterey to Crescent 

 City, the grape grows to the greatest perfection, next to the very placers of 

 gold. Some ten millions of acres can be cultivated in this noble fruit." 



