Bulletin of the Proceedings of the National Institution for the Promotion of 



Science, Washington, 1841. 



Date Received Item Description and Donor 



No. 



Dec. 14. 1840 14 Twenty-loiir Roman, Moorish, and Arabian coins, foimd near V'elez 



Malaga. Spain — From G. Read Esq., U.S. Consul at Malaga. 



Copper coins. — From James Gaither. 



Head of Dr. Franklin (framed), executed according to the Gai\anic 

 process of Jacobi, Frairklin Peale, Philadelphia. — From Franklin PeaU. 



A medal. — From Mrs. Ramsay. 



. . . Medal, struck at the centenary celebration of the city of Xew 

 Haven, C'onnecticut. Seven silver coins. Russian coin of Piatina. 

 Fi\'e medals commemorati\-e of the French re\olution achieved in the 

 three days of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July, 1830. Copies of two 

 medals moulded by a natmal deposit of carbonate of lime near 

 Radicofani. . . . — From Mrs. Poinsett. 

 44 ... Three gold coins. Fourteen silver coins. Eight paras. Thirty-one 

 copper coins. — From Mrs. OJfley, Georgetown . 

 Feb. 8, 1841 45 Medal struck to commemorate a reform of the constitution of Chili in 



1833. — From J. H. Causten, jr. 



Second Bulletin ot the Proceedings ot the National Institution for the 

 Promotion of Science, Washington, D.C., March, 1841, to February 1842 



Date Received Item Description and Donor 



No. 



March 8, 1841 70 Box of ancient coins. — From Dr. T. B. J. Frye. 



April 12, 1841 75 Medal struck at the celebration of the .Shakspeare Juijilee in 1769. — 



From Hon. Joel R. Poinsett. 

 79 Medal commemorating the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester 



Rail-Road. — From Hon. Joel R. Poinsett. 

 .Silver Coins and Minerals. — From Mr. Kervand, 

 Numismatique du Moyen Age, &c., par Joachim Lelewel, 2 vols, 



8\-o., . . . — From Mr. Kallussowski, ]\'est River, Md. 

 .Siixer and Copper C'oins — From Mrs. Poinsett. 

 .Silver and Chopper Coins — From Hon. j . R. Poinsett. 

 Medal connnemorating the union of the v^'aters of Lake Erie with the 



Atlantic. — From Lieut. John S. Chauncey, U.S.N. 

 Gold Coin, called Buntagec, coined in the city of Fez, in the year of the 



Hegira 1251, (A.D. 1835)— /^rom J. F. Mullowney. 

 Silver Coin of the Emperor Muley Abdallah, coined in Morocco and 



named Citsushyee. — From J. F. Mullowney. 

 98 De prisca Re Monetaria Xor\egiae, with plates by Prolessor C. A. 



Holmboe, C^hristiana, Xorway, 1840: transmitted by the Hon. 



C:hristopher Hughes, C;harge d'AfTaires of U.S. to Sweden. — From 



the .Author. 



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