The undersigned Members of the Board of Arts and Manufactures attached
to the Minister of the Interior, being required by his Excellency
to examine the description of the process of Mr. Appert for the
preservation of alimentary substance, certify that the details it
contains, as well on the mode of carrying on the process as on the
results, are exactly conformable to the various experiments which Mr.
Appert has made before them, by order of his Excellency.
(Signed) BORDEL,
GAY-LUSSAC,
SCIPION-PERRIER,
MOLARD.
_Paris, 19th April 1810._
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_Copy of a Letter written to General Caffarelli, Maritime Prefect
at Brest, by the Council of Health, dated Brumaire, year 12._
The provisions prepared according to the process of Citizen Appert and
sent to this port by the Minister of Marine, have, after lying in the
roads three months, been found in the following condition.
The broth or soup (_bouillon_) in bottles was good; the _bouillon_ with
a _bouilli_ in a vessel apart was also good, but weak; the _bouilli_
itself was very eatable.
The beans and green peas, prepared both with meat and vegetable soup,
had all the freshness and flavour of recently gathered vegetables.
(Signed) DUBREUIL,
BILLARD,
DURET,
PICHON,
THAUMER.
True Copy.
J. MIRIEL, _Secretary_.