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From Jolin Jay, Corresponding Secretary of the Historical Soci- 

 ety of New York, February 21, 1846: Asking the co-operation of 

 the Institute in an application to Congress to publish a sufficient 

 number of copies of the scientific books of the Exploring Expedi- 

 tion to supply the institutions and societies of the United States, &z;c. 



From Robert Hamilton, U. S. consul, Monte Video, February 21, 

 1846 : Describing the guano of Pataoonia, of which he sends a sum- 

 pie to the Institute, &,c. 



From Alexandre Vattemare, France, February 24, 1846 : En- 

 closing a list of books, &c., for the Institute, which he has sent in a 

 box to the Secretary of the Treasury. 



From Frederick A. Davisson, M. D., Loudon county, Virginia, 

 February 25, 1846: Staling that he has sent to the Institute a box 

 of shells and reptiles, &.c., of Virginia, Stc. 



From Hon. Lewis Cass, U- S. Senate, February 28, 1846; Re- 

 specting the Memorial of the Institute, wiiich he has presented to ihe 

 Senate, &c. 



From the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, 

 March 1, 1846: Circular — invitation to the meeting to be held in 

 New York in September, and list of papers to be read before it. 



From J. G. Norwood, M. D., Madison, Iowa, March 2, 1646: 

 Description (with plates) of a new fossil fish, from the paleeozic 

 rocks of Indiana, by himself and D. D. Owen, M. D.,to which they 

 propose to give the name of macropetalycbihys rapheidolaris. 



From John P. Brown, U. S. Dragoman, Turkey, March 10, 

 1846: Describing the Kundret Halvasi, or providential sweet- 

 meats, which resembles the manna of the Israelites, and is used as 

 a food in Asia Minor; and presenting a box of it to the Institute. 



From Christopher Hughes, late minister of the United States at 

 the Hague, Baltimore, March 18, 1846: Presenting a collection of 

 Irish birds, made at Londonderry t»y liis brother-in-law, the late 

 Col. Samuel Moore, of Baltimore. 



From the Historical and Geographical Society of Brazil, by M. 

 F. Lagos, Perpetual Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, March 25, 1846 : 

 Presenting the transactions of the society, &c. 



From Alexandre Vattemare, Paris, April 15, 1816: Annoimcing 

 that Louis Philip, King of the French, had presented to the Na- 

 tional Institute a splendid copy of the great work on the expedition 

 to Egypt, and mentioning other valuable presents, &ic. 



From B. S. Buckley, West Dresden, New York, April 28, 1846: 

 Presenting, through the Hon. Mr. Ellsworth, a collection of dried 

 plants, and oflering others, and asking for the bulletins of the In- 

 stitute, &,c. 



From H. P. Sartwell, Peon Yan, New York, April 30, 1845: 

 Sending, by the Hon. Mr. Ellsworth, a collection of Carices, and cat- 

 alogue of plants, and asking for the publications of the Institute, he. 



From C. A. Holmboe, Professor of Oriental Languages, Chris- 

 tiania, Norway, May 2, 1846 : Transmitting to the Institute, by the 

 hands of M. Lovcnskiold, the newly appointed minister of Sweden 



