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Gray's Harbour to Admiralty Inlet, Washington Territory. — 

 Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory. — False Dungeness Har- 

 bour, Washington Territory. — Cape Flattery and Nee-ah Har- 

 bour, Washington Territory. — From A. D. Bache, Superintend' 

 ent U. S. a S. 



Genealogy of Warren, with some Historical Sketches : by John C. 

 Warren, M.D. Boston, 1854. 4to. — From the Avthor. 



The Florist and Horticultural Journal. Vol. III. No. 12. Philadel- 

 phia, 1854. Svo. — From H. C. Hanson, Editor. 



A Geological Reconnaissance of the Arkansas River: by Prof. J. A. 

 Warder, of Cincinnati, O. Cleveland, 1854. 4to. — From the 

 Author. 



Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, pursuant to appointment, read an 

 obituary notice of the late Joseph Bonaparte, a member of the 

 Society. 



I was not aware, till lately apprised of it, that the American Philo- 

 sophical Society appointed me, ten years ago, on the death, in July, 

 1844, of our late fellow member, Joseph Bonaparte, to deliver the 

 obituary notice of him. No neglect on my part is the cause of the 

 omission since. And, as often providentially results from inaction, 

 and even ignorance, in this short-sighted world, where the wisest can- 

 not see far before them, gratuitous favourable influences now enshrine 

 the deceased which did not exist when he departed this life. 



In 1844, when Joseph Bonaparte died, obituary truth regarding 

 him would have been coldly received by probably many of this So- 

 ciety, and'by an incredulous number of our countrymen throughout 

 the United States. His immense brother, as another of our fellow 

 members. La Fayette, designated the Emperor, whom, though his 

 debtor for liberty and life, he felt it his duty to dethrone, was then 

 still deemed by nearly all Englishmen, many Americans, and some 

 Frenchmen, a monster, and Joseph one of his worst instruments. 



But the late popular elevation of their nephew to be emperor of the 

 French, the close international union since accomplished between 

 France and England, the enlightenment of their pacific intimacy, the 

 emulation of their warlike alliance, the literature and science of both 

 war and peace, in short, the providential progress of events and rec- 

 tification of public sentiment, have advanced, by half a century or 

 more, the clear historical light breaking on the acts and characters of 

 the Bonapartes. The great mother country, from which ours takes 



