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modification, were adopled, and a committee appointed to 



wait upon the Directors, and ask their sanction and consent. 

 The following donations were received : 



History of the Art of Typography from its origin to its present 

 improved state, by Dr. Karl Falkenstein, Leipzic, 1840. — 

 From T. G. Flu gel, U. S. consul at Leipzic, 



Description of the Guttenberg Festivity, as celebrated at Leip- 

 zic. — From the same. 



Head of a Mexican idol. Heylin's Cosmography, folio, Lon- 

 don, 1703. Beurard's Dictionary, German and French, of 

 German terms of Mineralogy and Metallurgy. — From Robt. 

 Greenhow. 



Copper coins. — From, James Gaither. ■' 



Two earthen vessels, called juacuas, from Peru. — From W. 

 F. Zantzinger, United States Navy. 



An article on Electricity in steam, by Dr. Locke. — From 



the Author. 

 A table of Meteorological Observations, by Dr. B. B. Brown, 



of St. Louis. — From the Author. 



Catalogue of the plants of Milwaukie, Wiskonsin, by J. A. 

 Lapham.' — From, the Author. 



Reply to imputations against the United States, contained 

 in recent foreign journals, by Eugene A. Vail, (French,) 

 Paris, 1S37. Account of the Indians of North America, by 

 Eugene A. Vail, Paris, 1840, (French.) — From the Author. 



Inquiry into the received opinions of Philosophers and Histori- 

 ans on the natural progress of the Human race., by Joel R. 

 Poinsett, Charleston, 1834. Eulogium on the life and char- 

 acter of Thomas S. Grimke, by James H. Smith, Charleston, 

 1835. Address to the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of South Carolina, deUvered in Charleston, 10th August, 

 1814, by Stephen Elliott, 4to, Charleston, 1814. — From Jos. 

 Johnson, M. D., Charleston. 



Oration before the American Institute by Professor C. Mason, 

 2d edition. New York, 1840. — From the Author. 



Dissertation on the nature and character of the Chinese system 

 of writing, in a letter to John Vaughan, Esq., together with 



