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From Capt. P. Cautley, Serampore, East Indies. 

 From Seth Sweetzer, U. S. Consul, Guayaquil. 

 From Charles C. Rafn, Secretary of the Royal Society of North- 

 ern Antiquaries Copenhagen. 



From John Jones, Middletown, Delaware. 



From W. P. Rowles, Pulaski, Tennessee. 



From Capt. W. K. Latimer, U. S. Navy. 



From Coppinger and Nantueil, New-York. 



From Thomas Pennant Barton, Philadelphia. 



From H. N. Crabb, Washington. 



From Hon. J. L. Tillinghast, member of Congress. 



From R. Dunglison, M. D., Philadelphia. 



From J. K. Townsend, Washington. 



From B. H. Latrobe, Baltimore. 



From Rev. W. Cogswell, Dartmouth College, New-Hampshire. 



From Thomas Sinclair, Philadelphia. 



From C. G. Page, Fairfax County, Virginia. 



From Dr. John Redman Coxe, Philadelphia. 



On motion, it was 



Resolved, That the circular of the Department of American His- 

 tory and Antiquities be published in the bulletin. 



Resolved, That the land and marine telegraph invented by Mr. 

 J. Rogers, of Baltimore, be referred to the Department of Science 

 applied to the Useful Arts. 



Resolved, That the plan proposed by Mr. J. H. B. Latrobe, of 

 Baltimore, of procuring a series of designs of all the public build- 

 ings of Washington, for the Institution, be referred to the same De- 

 partment. 



Lieut. Gilliss, U. S. N., presented a copy of the Meteorological 

 Journal kept at the Observatory under his charge, for the months of 

 September, October, and November, 1841 ; 



Also, tables, showing the means of the declination of the mag- 

 netic needle, barometric pressure and temperatures, for each of the 

 magnetic hours during the months of July, August, September, Oc- 

 tober, November, and December, 1840. 



