338 pnoCEEDiNGS or [1844. 



Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting of the Board of 

 Management, which took place at the ofSce of the Secretary of State, 

 on the 23d instant, be approved ; and that the Board be empowered 

 and requested to take any steps which may be necessary to promote 

 and complete the proposed arrangements. 



Which was adopted. 



Mr. Richard S. Coxe, after some preliminary remarks, in regard 

 to the loss sustained by the Institute in the death of the Hon. Lewis 

 F. Linn, late U. S. Senator, from the State of Missouri, and one of 

 its most active and efficient members, offered the following resolution, 

 which was unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That the National Institute have received, with sincere 

 regret, the intelligence of the death of our highly esteemed member, 

 the Hon. Lewis F. Linn, Senator from the State of Missouri. 



That the Hon. Thomas H. Benton be respectfully requested to 

 prepare a biographical memoir of the deceased, to be deposited 

 among the archives of the Institute. 



Stated Meeting, January 8, in which are incorporated the proceed- 

 ings of the Stated Meeting of February, 1844. 



The Recording Secretary announced the following donations : 



For the Cabinet. 



Forty-five specimens of Insects, (many of them but recently de- 

 scribed, and all extremely rare,) from near Cape Palmas, Western 

 Africa. — From Rev. Thomas S. Savage, M. D., of the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Mission in Africa. 



Catalogue of Insects from Dr. Savage. 



No. 1. Cicindella, No. 14. Ateucus cuprous, 



2. Carabus, 15. Lucanus Savageii, Hope, 



3. " 16. 



4. Galorita, 17. " 



5. Lamia ornata, 18. " 



6. " 19. Dynastos, (male and female,) 



7. " 20. Sagra, 



8. Cetonia, 21. Goliathus cacicus, " 



9. " (male and female,) '22. " quadri-maculatus, 



10. Coryphe guttata, (Olivier,) 23. Calandra palniarum, (male and 



11. Cetonia aurata ? female.) 



12. " marginata, (male and fc. 24. Orgetes rliinoseros, 



male.) 25. Dytiscus, (male and female.) 



13. Platygonia zainca, 26. Bupreetis aurata, " 



" Most of these insects were undescribed till they were sent to the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, President of the London Entomological Society, 

 ivho has since described and named the new species." 



