_I have the pleasure to transmit to you a copy of the Report made to the_ Société d’Encouragement, _by Messrs. Guyton-Morveau, Parmentier, and Bouriat, on your preserved vegetable and animal substances. Nothing can be added to the judgment passed by the Committee upon your discovery. They announce, that it has not been in their power to make any experiments, either sufficiently exact, or continued for a sufficient length of time, to enable them to verify to what extent the substances prepared by you may be preserved; but what they have themselves observed, suffices to enable them to form an opinion to which they were previously disposed, by the numerous and decisive testimonies which attest your success._ _The Society are of opinion that they are rendering a service to the country and humanity, when they make known so useful a discovery with the eulogies which it merits. Their desire will be accomplished, should their suffrage determine the public to make use of your productions, and so contribute to confer upon you the just rewards of your labours._ _Accept, Sir, the assurance of the perfect respect with which I have the honour to salute you._ _MATH. MONTMORENCY_, _Secretary, &c._ EXTRACT FROM THE PROCÈS-VERBAL OF THE SITTING OF THE COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION, WEDNESDAY, 15TH MARCH, 1809. _Report made by Mr. Bouriat, in the name of a Special Committee, on Vegetable and Animal Substances, preserved by_ MR. APPERT. The council referred to a committee, consisting of Messrs. Guyton-Morveau, Parmentier, and myself, the examination of vegetable and animal substances presented by Mr. Appert, and preserved by his process, for more than eight months. These substances were, 1. _Pot-au-feu_ [a standing French dish of boiled meat, fowls, &c.] 2. _Consommé_, gravy. 3. Milk. 4. Whey. 5. Green Peas. 6. Small Windsor Beans. 7. Cherries. 8. Apricots. 9. Currant Juice. 10. Raspberries. Each of these articles was contained in an earthen vessel hermetically sealed, the cork being fastened with iron wire and pitched. Proceeding methodically in our enquiry: We found in the _pot-au-feu_ a jelly tolerably rich, with a piece of beef and two pieces of fowl in the middle. Warming the whole with care, to a suitable degree, the soup was found good, and the meat which was separated from it, very tender, and of an agreeable flavour. The _consommé_ appeared to us to be excellent; and though prepared fifteen months before, there was scarcely any discernible difference between its then state, and what it would have been, if made fresh the same day.