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States, as will appear by the following letter, had cheerfully consent- 

 ed to become the Patron of the National Institution : 



Washington, December 13, 1841. 



Sir : I have to regret that pviblic engagements deprive me of the satisfaction of 

 being present at the contemplated meeting of the National Institution lor the Pro- 

 motion of Science. 



I cannot fail, however, to communicate to you the assurance of the deep interest 

 which I take in the objects of the Institution, my best wishes for its complete suc- 

 cess, and my congratulations upon those acliievements which have already crowned 

 its undertakings, and which furnish at once an evidence of its present enterprise 

 and progress, and a high promise of eminent future triumph and usefulness. 



I salute you and your associates of the Institution with sentiments of high respect 

 and consideration. TOHN TYT FR 



To the Vice-President of the National Institution, Washington. 



The following donations were received : 



For the Cabinet. 



Description of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention 

 of Printing, (German.) — From Dr. Flugel, Corresponding Mem- 

 ber National Institution, Consul of the U. iS'. at Leipzig, by the 

 hands of Hon. J. Q. Adams. 



Print emblematic of the same. — Fi-om the same. 



Specimens of Artificial Birds. — From the same. 



Horns of a Moose, (Cervus alces,) killed near the head of the North 

 West Branch of the Penobscot river, on the " disputed territo- 

 ry." — From Randolph Coyle. 



Fish, and Crustacea, {Astacus* ccecus,) from the Mammoth Cave, 

 Kentucky. — From Mrs. Col. Croghan. 



Crystals, Stalactites, &c., from the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. — 

 From Mrs. Col. Croghan. 



Copy of an ancient Egyptian Monumental Slab (original in Naval 

 Lyceum, New- York) on lithographic paper, done by a new and 

 simple process, by Lieut. Harwood. — From Lieut. Andrew Allen 

 Harwood, U. S. N. 



Front view of Whitehall, near Newport, Rhode-Island, formerly the 

 residence of Dean Berkely; and view of Hanging Rock, and Sa- 

 chuest Beach and Purgatory, near Newport, (the rock under which 

 Dean Berkely wrote his " Minute Philosopher,") drawn and litho- 

 graphed by Lieut. Harwood. — From the same. 



