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American Quarterly Register, conducted by Rev. S. H. Riddel, 



Boston, May, 1842. — From the American Education Society, 

 Institut Royal de France, 1841. — Programme of Communications 

 made to the American Piiilcsophical Society, at its 100th Anni- 

 versary, 26th i\lay, 1843. — From Mr. Dupo7iceau, President of 

 the Society. 

 Profile of Rocks between Philadelphia and Norristown. — Deposition 

 of Thomas Mervine. (Both these documents are in illustration of 

 the rock containing singular marks, presented by P. A. Browne, of 

 Philadelphia.) — Frotn P. A. Browne. 

 Flora Fluminensis, seu Descriptionum Plantarum Praefectura Flu- 

 minensi Sponte Nascentium, containing 1640 designs of Plants, by 

 Fr. Jo?e|)hus Marianus, a Conceptione Velloso, 1 1 vols., folio, and 

 an Index, lithographed and published by the Brazilian Govern- 

 ment in Paris, 1837. — From the Chev. G. de Lisboa, Minister 

 Brazil, in the name of the Government of Brazil. 

 Biblioteca di Commercio, compilata per cura di G. Bursotti, 7 voU. 

 octavo, October, 1841, to April, 1842, and July, 1842. — From 

 the Author. 

 Description of the ten Javan Deities in the New York Museum, by 

 I. Cozzens, 1830. — Researches on the Cheiroptera of the United 

 States, by VVm. Cooper ; New York, 1837. — Geological History 

 of New York Island, with a Map,&c., &,c.; New York, 1843; by 

 Issachar Cozzens. — From Mr. Cozzens. 

 Annales de I'Observatoire Royal de Bruxelles, par A. Quetelet, 

 Perpetual Secretary, Tome II, 1842. — From M. Quetelet, in be- 

 half of the Royal Observatory. 

 Paper Money on a Sheet. — From 



Atlas Fisico e Politico de la Republica de Venezuela, par Augustin 

 Codazzi, Colonel de Ingenieros; Carracas, 1841. — From His Ex- 

 cellency General Jose Antonio Paez, late President of the Re- 

 public of Venezuela, 

 Antichi Monumenti di Siracusa, iliustrati dell' Antiquario Gtiisseppe 

 Maria Capodieci; Syracuse, 1816, 2 vols., octavo. — From Capt, 

 John S. Chauncey, U. S. Navy. 

 Royal Gazette of Bermuda, April 25, May 2, 9, 1843, (with Meteor- 

 ological Tables.) — From Gov. Reid, of Bermuda. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 



March and April, 1843, Nos. 24, '25.— From the Academy. 

 Appleton's Literary Bulletin, New York, June, \8i3.— From the 



Editors. 

 U. S. Gazette, Philadelphia, May 29, 1842, containing letter from 

 S. C. Walker and E. Otis Kendall, of High School Observatory, 

 to the Philosophical Society, on the late Comet. — From the Au- 

 thors. 

 Sentinel and Witness, Middleton, Connecticut, May 31, 1843. — Plan 

 for restoring Salmon to the Connecticut River, by J. Barratt, M. 



