Ihey might be useful, in carrying out the objects of the Insti- 



tution ; r- ■ r^ 



And from the Corresponding Secretary, notifymg Corres- 

 ponding Members of their election, and soliciting then- co-op- 



eration. , . , 



The Department of Geology and Mineralogy was requested 

 to make a Geological and Mineralogical survey of the District 

 of Columbia; to cause a Geological Map lo be executed, and a 

 suite of Specimens to be prepared for the Institution. 



The Department of Natural History was requested to pre- 

 pare catalogues of the Animals and Vegetables of the District 

 of Columbia, and to collect specimens. 



Stated Meeting, September 14, 1840. 



Present, twenty-three members. 

 Hon. Joel R. Poinsett in the Chair. 



The following donations were received : ^ ^ . 



A specimen of ' Fucoides Mleghaniensis,^ from the Gap in 

 Wills' Mountain, near Cumberland, Maryland.-From J. 



Iron'and Copper ores from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.- 



From Hon. Gouverneur Kemhle. 

 Selenite, Marl, Fossils, &c. from St. Mary's ^-'/^f ^f^^; 

 oxide of Iron, from Piney Point, Maryland; and a Bottle, n- 

 crusted with Balani, from the bed of the Potomac, 70 miles 

 below Washington.-i^rom Pishey Thompson 

 Two publications on the Daguerreotype, by J. Monticello, of 



Naples.— i^ro/n the Author. 

 Geological Survey of Virginia, 1839. By Professor W. B. 



Rogers. — From the Author. 

 MS. Collection of one hundred papers and documents, con- 

 sisting of a series of Proclamations, Correspondence, Ad- 

 dresses, Garrison and Police orders, &c., illustrating the His- 

 tory «f South Carolina, from the capitulation of Charleston, 



