1841.] 



THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. 



79 



From A. Bourne, Chilicothe : Stating that he had forwarded for 

 the Institution six hundred and fifty specimens of Shells, viz : 



3 Anatifera, 

 2 Solen, 



1 My a, 



2 Tellina, 

 2 Donax, 

 2 Astarte, 



12 Cyclas, 

 5 Venus, 

 1 Area, 

 5 Alasmodon, 

 248 Unio, 

 40 Anodon, 

 1 Mytilus, 

 4 Modiola, 



1 Pecten, 



1 Ostrea, 



2 Crepidula, 



3 Ancylus, 



3 Bulla, 

 45 Helix, 



I Succinea, 

 8 Bulemus, 



4 Achatina, 



20 Pupa, 



4 Auricula, 



21 Cyclostoma, 



II Limncea, 

 6 Physa, 



13 Planorbis, 

 20 Melania, 

 3 Melanopsis, 

 2 Ampularia, 

 13 Paludina, 

 1 Neritina, 

 1 Natica, 



1 Nerita, 

 11 Littorina, 



5 Lacuna, 



2 Cerithium, 

 2 Fusus, 



1 Pyrula, 

 1 Murex, 



1 Pteroceras, 



2 StrombuB, 



1 Cassis, 



3 Purpura, 



3 Buccinum, 



2 Terebra, 



2 Columbclla, 



2 Mitra, 



1 Marginella, 



1 Ovulum, 

 10 CyprcEd, 

 14 Oliva, 



2 Conus. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that two thousand copies 

 of Bulletin No. 1 of the Proceedings of the National Institution 

 had been printed, of which upwards of one thousand copies had been 

 distributed, and five hundred copies set aside as a reserve for the 



future. 



A Committee was appointed to correspond with the officers of the 

 Navy and the Revenue service ; to invite them to make collections of 

 shells and other marine productions ; and to point out the best mode 

 of collecting and preserving them, for the Cabinet of the Institu- 

 tion. 



It was Resolved, That the death of William Henry Harrison, 

 late President of the United States, and an honorary member of the 

 National Institution, be inserted on the Journal, with an obituary 



notice. And, 



Resolved, That the President of the Institution be requested to 

 appoint a metnber to prepare and deliver before the Institution an 

 Address on the life and character of the deceased. 



The Collections, Library, &c., of the National Institution, were 

 ordered to be removed to the rooms appropriated to its use, in the 

 new Patent Office, and the meetings of the Institution hereafter to 

 be held at the said rooms. 



