860 PROCEEDINGS OF [1844. 



Package of Vegetable Silk produced by the Asclepias gigantea. — 

 From Henry Huichiugs, by the hands of Consul Harrison, Ja- 

 maica. 



Cottus gobio, &c., (two specimens.) — From C. H. Olmstead, Man- 

 chester, Connecticut. 



Box, containing a large and fine Portrait of General Jackson, by 

 Earle. — From Major W. H. Chase, United States Engineer 

 Corps. 



Two boxes, containing valuable Books, Engravings, Stc, &ic., from 

 France. — From Alexandre Vattemare, Paris. 



Box, containing Skin of an Elk, Minerals, and other Curiosities. — 

 From Capt. P. St. George Cooke, United States Dragootis, Fort 

 Leavenivorth. 



Box of Minerals, &,c. — From Harry Neale, of Unity, New Hamp- 

 shire, by the hands of the Hon. Edmund Burke, House of Re- 

 presentatives. 



Jar, containing two remarkable Fishes caught by him in the Chesa- 

 peake, which lie calls the Butterfly Fish. — From Lieut. W. D. 

 Porter, United States Navy. 



Box, containing a splendid prepared Mammoth Lobster. — From 

 Major W. Turnhull, in the name of Amos Laivrence, Jr., Bos- 

 ton. 



Bottle, containing a curious Worm, from the Tsle of Pines. — From 

 Lieut. Carlisle P. Patterson, United States Navy. 



A Bottle, containing Fucus Natans, or Gulf Weed, in flower. — 

 From Capt. Dornin, United States Navy. 



A box, containing living Plants of the Cherry, Wild Peach, he, 

 for cultivation. — From Major E. G. W. Butler, near Bayou 

 Gould, Louisiana, by the hands of George Law, Baltimore. 



For the Library. 



East India Marine Society of Salem, 1 vol. — Supplement to the Ca- 

 talogue of the Museum of the Marine Society, 1 vol. — Journal of 

 the Essex County Natural History Society, vol 1, No. 2, 1839, 

 1 vol. — Catalogue of the Salem Athenaum, 1 vol. — Ephemerides 

 Astrouomicas, fcc, Corimbra, 1843, calculated for 1845. — From 

 Henry Wheatland, Salem. 



Around the World, See, by J. Henshaw Belsher, United States 

 Navy, 2 vols., duodecimo. — From the Author. 



Institut Royal de France, 1844, 1 vol. — From A. Vattemare. 



Jamaica Monthly Magazine, No. 1, April, 1844. — Report on the 

 Mount Vernon Mining Company, of Kingston, Jamaica, 1844. — 

 From R. M. Harrison, United States Consul, Jamaica. 



Fac-Similes, on Copper Plates, of Hieroglyphics dug out of a mound 

 in Pike County, Illinois. — From fV. Y. Head, Warsaw, Illinois. 



History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Wm. H. Prescolt, 3 vols., 

 octavo, 1843. — From the Author. 



