AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 377 



a shed over all to carry off the water. Eice hulls are good to 

 keep the potatoes in. These hulls are almost pure silex — will 

 not absorb moisture, nor mold, and are always sweet. I por- 

 pose to continue the subject to next meeting. Preservation of 

 fruit and vegetables. Ordered unanimously. 



Mr. Disturnell moved that the subject of the camel for Ameri- 

 ca, be then considered. It was so ordered. 



Mr. Foster, of Oregon, presented a large pear, one and a half 

 poimds, from Oregon, for the trial of quality. It was rather 

 ordinary for flavor — not very tender. Dr. Church presented 

 stalks of the sugar millet, almost as sweet as some sugar cane. 

 Mr. Adrian Eergen presented some ears of his late crop of Flint 

 corn, well grown — the eight and twelve row sorts. Some Came- 

 lina Sativa, from the Patent oifice, was distributed. The Club is 

 earnestly engaged in sending out the Colzas, received from the 

 Light House Department, that we may avail the United States 

 of their oil. The Club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Sec'y. 



December 4:th, 1855. 



Present — Hon. Robert Swift Livingston, Prof. Mapes, Messrs. 

 Solon Robinson, Adrian Eergen, Say, the venerable Eenjamin 

 Pike, Judd, Hite, Van Wyck, McGauran, Disturnell, Waring, 

 Parker, Leonard, Chambers, Olcott and others — forty-two mem- 

 bers in all. 



Judge Livingston in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following papers of extracts and trans- 

 lations made by him, viz : 



[United States Patent Office Report. Part Third. Agriculture. 1854.] 



Extracts by H. Meigs. 

 Distinguished service has been rendered to the great depart- 

 ment — Agriculture, by D. J. Erowne and Townend Glover. The 

 former, by his interesting, because intelligent selection of valua- 

 ble seeds in Europe and elsewhere, for distribution throughout 

 the United States by the Patent Office. The latter for eminent 

 service in his most careful, minute, and learrftd labors in the 

 science of entomology, as relates to those destroyers of our crops, 

 the little insects which for the most part have escaped all eyes 

 and manipulations but those of our most worthy, learned, and in- 



