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tion, one of the copies in the War Department of the lithographic prints and his. 

 torical sketches Iiaving reference to these portraits. 



We have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servants, 



J. J. ABERT, Col. Corps Top. Engs. 

 A. O. DAYTON, 

 F. MARKOE, Jr. 



Committee National Institution. 



Department of War, June 21, 1841. 

 Gentlemen : I have received your letter of the 18th inst., conveying the thanks 

 of the National Institution for the deposit made by this Department, of Indian 

 Portraits and Indian curiosities, and communicating the application of the Institu- 

 tion for one of the copies in the Department of the lithographic prints and liistori- 

 cal sketches having reference to these portraits. These prints and sketches being 

 properly appendages to the portraits, it gives me great pleasure to comply with the 

 request. I have, accordingly, directed that a copy be sent to the Institution, to be 

 placed on deposit with the portraits. 



Very respectfully, your obedient sen-ant, JOHN BELL 



Col. J. J. Abert, ^ 



A. O. Dayton, Esq., \ Committee National Institution. 

 F. Markoe, Jr., Esq. j 



The Committee on the Library reported that they had arranged 

 the books, and presented their catalogue. 



The Department of American History and Antiquities, to which 

 had been referred the letter of Mr. TefFt, Corresponding Secretary of 

 the Georgia Historical Society, inquiring for materials relating to the 

 History of Georgia, upon which Dr. W. Bacon Stevens was engaged, 

 made a report upon the documents in the Library of the Institution 

 likely to be useful for the purpose. 



The following communications to the Corresponding Secretary, 

 were read : 



From George Read, U. S. Consul, Trieste : 



Malaga, March 23, 1841. 



Dear Sir: I take the liberty of sending by the brig Isaac Franklin, Captain 

 Wm. Smith, to New-York, a sample of cotton sucli as is cultivated on tiiis cooat, 

 particularly in the District of Motril, fifty miles south of Granada, with a view of 

 its being examined by some of those intelligent in the growth of the plant, and 

 who will no doubt now bo .-it Washington. 



I am told, for I am no judge myself, that the description is very fine, and it ap. 

 pears lo mo that the longevity of the plant is a peculiarity, though, porha[)B, that 

 may be applicable only in cUmates like tliis, free from liard frosts; still I am induced 



