To George Washington from the Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), 21 February 1797
From the Board of Agriculture (Great Britain)
Whitehall [London] 21st February 1797
Resolved
That the thanks of this Board be given, to His Excellency George Washington, for his obliging Communications respecting Manures and Vegetation.1
John Sinclair President.
DS, DLC:GW. GW replied to Sinclair on 15 July 1797 (see 1:250–52).
1. The “Communications” most likely refer to Richard Peters’s manuscript queries, answers, and miscellaneous remarks about plaster of Paris, manures, and vegetation, which GW transmitted to John Sinclair, president of the Board of Agriculture (see Peters to GW, 12 May 1796). The set of queries was published under the title Agricultural Enquiries on Plaister of Paris, which Peters sent GW (see GW to Peters, 21 Jan. 1797, and n.1). Though GW had promised to forward Sinclair Robert Somerville’s Outlines of the Fifteenth Chapter … On the Subject of Manures, that work is unlikely among the “Communications” referenced in this document; GW recently had sent the Outlines and other works to Peters, who still had them in his possession in late January (see GW to Sinclair, 12 June 1796; see also GW to Peters, 10 Dec. 1796; and Peters to GW, 26 Jan. 1797).