184 Meeting of the Ex. Com. JV. Y. State Jig. Soc. 
Chloride of sodium, (common salt,) •285 
Sulphuric acid, .... 2"011 
Carbonic acid, .... 2'050 
Organic matter, .... trace. 
98-799 
From these analyses it will be seen that the shells of the clam 
contain a much larger per cent of phosphates, magnesia, potash, 
and soda, than those of the oyster; while the latter are much the 
richest in lime and sulphuric acid. 
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NEW 
YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Present — George Vail, Ex President ; George GediJes, Samuel Cheever, 
Vice-Presidenls ; Lulher Tucker, Joel Kalhbone, J. McD. Mclntyre, B. P. 
Johnson. 
Letters were received from A. B. Allen; A. J. Downing; The- 
odore D. Woolsey, D. D., President of Yale College; L. F. Allen; 
I. Delafield; J. A. King; E. C. Herrick, Yale College; C. Lee; 
D. Deitz; M. P. Wilder; L M. Ellis; L B. Burnet; Mons. A. 
Vattemare; J. J. Sproull; M. P. Coons; D. J. Browne; R.Clear- 
water; Jewell, Harrison, & Co.; J. R. Gibson; J. Boyce; J. W. 
Bailey; H. Blanchard; J. G. Carl; Messrs. Hancock & Fetters; 
Rev. C. E. Goodrich; A. L. Fish; E. Baldwin; Frederick A. 
Ford, South Carolina; J. Alleyn; Rev. D. Hunt; Asa Fitch, M. 
D.; Hon. T. Jenkins; J. W. Jenkins; A. H. Stevens, M. D.; J. 
Darrack. 
Prof. J. F. W. Johnston, Durham, England, was chosen a cor- 
responding member. 
The following books and pamphlets received for library: 
M. P. Wilder, Esq., President of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
Society, Transactions of their Society, with colored prints, &c. 
Annual Report of the Buffalo Horticultural Society, with Ad- 
dress of the President, L. F. Allen, Esq. 
Address of A. B. Conger, Esq., before Rockland Agricultural 
Society, from J. M. Dederer. 
From Prof. J. P. Norton, Yale College, catalogue and pamphlet 
containing an analysis of Peas, Beans, &c. 
M. B. Batehara, Esq., report of Ohio Board of Agriculture. 
Rev. D. Hunt, Pomfret, Connecticut, specimens of Russet Ap- 
ples, raised on his farm, of the growth of 1846 and 1847, in fine 
preservation. Apples from the same tree were shown at the fair 
