118 PROCEEDINGS OF [NoV. 



Box of Shells. — From Benjamin C. Burt, Warwick, Orange Coun- 

 ty, New- York. 



Fancy Box of Whalebone. — From the same. 



Whalebone ornamantecl. — From the same. 



One Five Pound Note, 1759, Pennsylvania. — From the same. 



One Dollar Note, 1775, Maryland. — From the same. 



One Unio, and several Geological Specimens. — From John R. 

 Woods. 



Coins. — From Dr. Hanson Penn. 



Minerals. — From Joseph Fussell, Pennsylvania. 



Model of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. — From Selby Parker, 

 Washington. 



Four Specimens of Liraulus polyphemus, (Horse-shoe Crab.) — From 

 W. G. Cranch. 



Great Heron, (Ardea herodias.) — From Philip Stone. 



Fossils, (Pectens,) from James River, Virginia. — From Wm.Knowlcs, 

 Georgetown, D. C. 



For the Library. 



Observations on the tails of Halley's Comet, &ic. — From James 

 Glenn. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 

 vol. 1, No. 14.; vol. 2, Nos. 17, 18, and \9.—From the Society. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 vol. 1, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. — From the Academy. 



Catalogues of Instruments. Makers : Wrightman, Boston ; Jones, 

 London ; Pixu, Paris. — From Rev. J. Carly, Georgetown Col- 

 lege. 



Almanac, 1790. — From John S. Sayres, Alexandria, D. C. 



The following communication was read: 



St. Louis, Oclohcr 21, 1841. 



Dear Sir: Allow mo to prosont through you to the National lustituto, of which 

 I have the honor to be a corresponding member, a small collection of plants which 

 I have made in this vicinity during the past seaRon. 1 confine myself, for the pre- 

 sent, to two genera; but. T lidiovi' that you grt them from nic more complete than 

 any one else has them. 



The (Tcnus Cuscutii, which has attracted my attention since several years, has 



