340 PROCEEDINGS OF [1844. 



Box ol' Mineials, Sic. — From Win. Oland Bourne, BrookUjn, Long 

 Istanil. 



Forty-five Roman Coins, (forty-four silver, one bronze ;) fifteen 

 mixed Coins, (fourteen silver, one bronze;) two Alexander Coins, 

 (silver;) nine Corinthian Coins, (silver;) eight Greek Coins, (sil- 

 ver;) seven Egyptian Coins, Ptolemies, (one silver, six bronze.) 

 — From Gouverneur Paiddlug, New York. 



Box, Copper Ores of Jamaica. — From Robert M.Harrison, United 

 States Cotisul, Jamaica. 



Box, from Gibraltar, containing part of tiie Machinery of the Steamer 

 Missouri, in a semi-fused condition. — From Hon. C. Gushing, 

 Minister to China. 



Box, Brazilian Birds. — From Capt. H. H. Cocke, U. S. Navy. 



Box, containing one hundred and seventy-six small Coins, of the 

 middle age, chiefly from ISorway, of fifty-six difierent Stamps, 

 and many duplicates to enable the Institute to exchange, from 

 the Numophylacium of the University of which he is Profes- 

 sor. — From Professor C. A. Holmboe, Christiania, Norway. 



For the Library. 



Statistical Works of M. Cesar iVloreau, Paris. — From the Author. 



Pamphlets, &c. — From W. W. Andrews, United States Consul, 

 Malta. 



Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, vol. 2, part 3 ; 

 Edinburg, 1843. — From the Society. 



Report on the Machine at the Trevasean Mine, for ascent and de- 

 scent of Miners ; Purport of a paper relative to Springs of Water, 

 by R. W. Fox, U. S. Consul, Falmouth ; Report Linna?an Society 

 of New England, respecting a large marine animal, supposed to 

 be a Serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August, 

 1817.— Fro;« L. H. Sheldon. 



Report on Steam Navigation in the Pacific, with an account of the 

 Coal Mines of Chile and Panama, &c., ?«tc., by William Wheel- 

 right ; London, 1843. — From the Author. 



One Trunk, Case, Package, containing Books, k.c., forwarded by 

 Henry Ledyard, U. S. Charge d'AfFaires, France. — From Alex- 

 andre Vattemare. 



Mecanique Celeste, of La Place, translated, with a Commentary, by 

 N. Bowdilch, and a Memoir of the Translator, by his Son, 4 vols., 

 quarto. — From Hon. Abbott Laicrcnce, Boston. 



Description of an African Beetle, allied to Scarabaeus Polyphemus, 

 with remarks on other Insects of the same group, by T. W. Har- 

 ris, M. D., Librarian Harvard L^niversity. — From Rev. Thomas 

 S. Savage, M. D. 



Opere dell' abate Teodoro Monticelli, (Perpetual Secretary of the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences of Naples;) Napoli, 1841, 2 vols., 

 quarto. — Appendice al Prodrome della Mineralogia Vesuviana, di 



