361 [December, 1841. 



of publication were instructed to furnish Dr. Coggswell with 

 volumes VI. and VII., and Part I. of Vol. VIII., together with 

 the Proceedings of the Academy as far as published. 



A letter was also read from Dr. Edwin Fussell, dated Pen- 

 dleton, Indiana, December 5th, announcing thai he had trans- 

 mitted a box of Fossil Organic remains for the cabinet of the 

 Academy, and tendering his services in collecting in several 

 other departments of Natural History. 



The chairman then called the attention of the members to 

 the importance of publishing, without delay, and in accordance 

 with a former resolution, the second part of vol. VIII. of the 

 Journal of the Academy. He stated that several highly im- 

 portant memoirs awaited the Society's acceptance, which 

 together with those already in the hands of the committee, 

 were amply sufficient to form a half volume. 



