ABSTRACT 



OF 



COMMUNICATIONS AND PRESENTS 



TO THE 



NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 



Communications, &fc. 



From Senor Sinibaldo de Mas, Sjianish Charge d'Affaires in 

 China, Macao, May 12, 1844: Submitting his essay on Ideography, 

 &ic., to the examination of tlie Institute. 



*From J. C. Pickett, late U. S. minister to Lima, Peru, August 

 15, 1844 : On the fate and character of Major Andre, &c. 



*From the same, Lima, Peru, September 30, 1844. Third letter; 

 on the canal communication between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 



*From C. C. Rafn, Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Society of 

 Northern Antiquarians, Copenhagen, October 10, 1844: Describing, 

 at large, the Museum of American Antiquities of the Royal Soci- 

 ety, &c. 



*From J. C. Pickett, late U. S. minister to Lima, Peru, October 

 20, 1844: On mate, the yerba, or tea of Paraguay, &c. 



From the Berlin Society for the Encouragement of Horticulture 

 in Prussia: G. A. Tintelman, Secretary General, Berlin, Novem- 

 ber 20, 1844. 



*From T. G. Clemson, U. S. Charge d'Affaires in Belgium, 

 Brussels, December 12, 1844: Describing a new loom, invented 

 and patented in Brussels, by C. de Poorter, and recommending its 

 introduction into the United Slates. 



*From Henry A. Wise, American minister, Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 

 January 13, 184.5: Describing the Boabab of Senegambia, the 

 Adansonia digitata, a remarkable tree of Africa, &c. 



*From John A. Bryan, late Charge d'Afiaires of the United States 

 at Lima, February 14, 1845 : On the communication between the 

 Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 



*From Rev. John G. Morris, Baltimore, February 15, 1845: 

 Remarks on the natural history and habits of a remarkable larva 

 from New Zealand, having a plant growing out of its head, called by 

 the natives hotte. For further remarks on this subject, see page 506. 



From Dr. Joseph Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, February 



•Tho communications markod thuG • havo been published in full in the Wash- 

 ington newspapers and clHuwliere. 



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