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Royal Gazette, Bermuda, from March 21 to April 18, 1843- five 

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Bermuda. t i r. lo^n . 



Berliner Gewerbe, Industrie und Handelsblatt, from July 2, 1842, to 



February 4, 1843, sixty-eight numbers.— -From H. Wheaton, 



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Transactions of the Society of Alumni of the College of Physicians 



and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York, JNo. 1. 



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Notice of the Discovery of a new Locality of the Infusorial btra- 

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Reply of Col. Abert and Mr. Markoe to the Hon. Mr. Tappan, Uni- 

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Abstract of Correspondence. 



To John Cassin, Philadelphia, May 6, 1843 : Thanking him for 

 the valuable donations made to the Institute, through Mr. Townsend, 



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To J. A. Bolles, Secretary of State of Massachusetts, April 12, 

 1843 : Thanking him for the public documents sent through the Se- 

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From W. Byrd Powell, Arkansas, April 19, 184d. 



From R. Dunglison, M. D., Secretary of Philosophical Society 

 of Philadelphia, April 24, 1843 : Thanking the Society for transac- 



^° From'^br. J. G. Fliigel, U. S. Consul, Leipsic, April 26, 1843 : 

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thanks, &tc. 



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From General Jose A. Paez, ex-President, Venezuela, Caraccas, 

 August 10, 1843 : Transmitting copy of Col. Codazzi's work on the 



geography of Venezuela, fee. ,. ^ /-. . t> 



From Redmond Conyngham, Paradise, Lancaster County, Penn- 

 sylvania, November 26, 1843: Respecting Mr. Spencer s first circu- 

 lar, calling a meeting of learned men at Washington. 



From John Bursotti, Naples, December 8, 1843 : Transmitting 

 eii£ht livraisons of his work entitled " Bibliotheque de Commerce. 



From C. C. Rafn, Secretary Royal Society of Northern Antiqua- 

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From the Leopold Caroline Academy of Naturforcher, Breslau, 

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