Excerpt from Reports of Two Boards of Navy Officers, Convened by Order of the Hon. William A. Graham, Secretary of the Navy: At the U. S. Navy Yard, New York, in Nov; 1851, and at Washington City, in May 1852, to Examine Certain Desiccated Alimentary Vegetable Substances, Prepared After the Process of M. Masson, Chief Gardner of the Central Society of Horticulture of France, By The Board-will examine and test, with the greatest care, each of. The articles procured, as to its quality, state of preservation, retention of properties, and its adaptation as a means of improving the diet Of seamen. The Department desires that the Board will make accurate and minute experiments on such articles as may be presented by the Commandant of the New York navy-yard, who will furnish also cer tain observations in relation to the experiments to be made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.