The Departments of the Institution were requested to collect, 

 without delay, "all Reports made by Committees of Congress, 

 and by Executive officers of the Government, illustrating 

 the Geography, History, Geology, Manufactures, Commerce, 

 &c., of the United States." 



Slated Meeting, November 9, 1840, 



Present, thirty-nine members, 



Hon. Joel R. Poinsett in the Chair. 



The following donations were received : 

 Tooth of a Mastodon, found in Arkansas.— From Col. J. H. 



Hook, U. S. Ji. 

 Specimen of " Bird's eye Marble," or Encrinital Limestone, 



from Iowa city. — From Mr. Neivhall. 

 Map of the Empire of Russia.— From Hon. J. R. Poinsett. 

 Fossil Specimen, from the Tunnel of the Chesapeake and Ohio 



canal, at the Paw-paw Bend, in Alleghany county, Mary- 

 land. — From Robert Barnard. 

 Collection of Pamphlets, relating to the Revolution in 1776.— 



From Robert Barnard. 

 Specimens of the Printing used in teaching Reading and Music 



to the Blind.— From /, H. Causten, jr. 

 Geological and Agricultural Survey of Rhode Island, by Dr. 



C. T. Jackson. — From the jJuthor. 

 Volume of Ancient Maps.— From Colonel James Kearrier/, 



U. S. A. 



History of Embalming, by J. N. Gannal, translated by R. Har- 

 lan, M. D., Philadelphia.— From the Translator. 



Recent Shells.— From Isaac Lea, Philadelphia. 



Paper on « the Oolitic formation of America," read before the 

 American Philosophical Society May 15, 1840, by Isaac 

 Lea. — From, the Jiuthor. 



Synopsis of the Family of the Naiades, by Isaac Lea.— 

 From the Jlnthor. 



