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did opportunities for acquiring money through his profession and office, 
by devoting his medical services gratuitously to the poor and powerful, 
for the purpose of obtaining usefui intelligence concerning the plants of 
the country, which could not have been purchased in any other way. 
GEORGE CLARK. 
No. 2. 
Whereas the present Legislative Council, with a view of encouraging 
the cultivation of useful foreign and tropical plants, have passed a law 
incorporating the “ Tropical Plant Company of Florida and whereas 
it is believed that a grant of land by Congress, somewhere in the south- ' 
ern part of the peninsula of Florida would be greatly conducive to the 
public good, and promote the views of said company, and might be made 
without detriment to the public interest: 
jBe it, therefore, resolved. That our delegate in Congress be, and he is 
hereby, requested to use his endeavors to procure the passage of a law 
making such grant to the said company, for the objects aforesaid, as may 
bestcomportwiththepubhegood- 
Resolved, further, That a copy of this preamble and resolution be 
immediately forwarded to him. 
A true copy. 
Test; JOHN K. CAMPBELL. Clerk. 
No. 3. 
Lyceum op Naturae History, 
New York, February 10 , 1832. 
Dear Sir : The subject of your paper on the. Agave Sisalana, read be¬ 
fore the Lyceum on January 9, 1832, has been duly examined by their 
committee, who gave in their report at the last sitting of the society; 
which report, by order of the sam,e, 1 now transmit. 
Extract from the minutes. 
^‘■Feh. 9, 1832.—Mr. Halsey, of the committee to whom, were referred 
the papers read before the Lyceum on January 9th, by Dr. Perrine, 
American consul at Campeachy in Yucatan, on the subject of Sisal hemp 
(Agave Sisalana) and other tropical plants,gave in their report, accompanied 
with the following, resolutions, which were unanimously accepted. 
“ At the sitting of the Lyceum, January 9, 1832, Dr. Perrine, Amefi" 
can consul at Campeachy in Yucatan, read some observations on the 
culture, &c., of the Sisal hemp, and other tropical plants, from which 
materials are furnished of extensive use in commerce and in the arts. 
“ Resolved, That the Lyceum concur in the Views of the subject given 
by Dr. Perrinne f and conceiving the great national benefit which might 
be derived from the introduction and general culture of those plants in 
such sections of the Union as would be suitable to their growth, they 
