1846.] THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 501 



Four packages of Books, &c., kc—From A. Vaitemare. 



Revista Trimensal de Historica e Geosiaphica, or Journal of the 

 Historical and Geographical Institute of Brazil, from 1839 to 1846, 

 26 vols., octavo. — Meinorias de Insiituto Historico, &;c. — Da Vida 

 e Feiios de A. de Gusma, &c, — As primeiras Negocia^oes Diplo- 

 maticas Respectivas ao Brazil, &c. — From the Institute, oj Brazil, 

 by the hands of his Excellency Mr. Lisboa, Envoy Extraordina- 

 ry and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil, at fi^ashington. 



Cor^espondencia, &;c. ; Diplomatic Correspondence with France and 

 England, 1846, quarto; Buenos Ayres.— fVow Don Pedro de 

 Angelis. 



Proceedings of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to 

 April, 1846. — From the Academy. 



Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams, 

 edited from the papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Trea- 

 sury, by George Gibbs, 2 vols., octavo; New York, 1846.— 

 From the Editor. 



Lithographic Portrait of the Abbe General of the Mekitarists of 

 Venice. — From M. Alishan. 



Transactions of the ^ew York State Agricultural Society, 1845. — 

 From Robert Lawrence. 



Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, vol. 4, 

 No. 5 ; February, 1846. — From the Lyceum. 



Box (large) containing a collection of French works on Political 

 Economy and War, &,c. — From Arthur Middltton, of South 

 Carolina. 



Works (4 vols.) of Francesco Zautideschi, of Venice. — From the 



Author. 

 Prisons and Prisoners, by Mr. Joseph Adahead, 1 vol., octavo ; 



London, 1845. — From the Author. 

 Flight of Birds, &,c., (in German,) octavo; Vienna, 1846. — From 



Joh. Jos. Prechtl, of Vienna. 

 Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages, &ic., of Massachusetts, 



1845, by J. G. Palfrey. — Report of Census of Boston, inc., by 



L. Shattuck. —From Mr. Shattuck. 

 Discourse on the Life and Character of Sir Walter Raleigh, delivered 



by J. Morrison Harris, before the Maryland Historical Society, 



May, 1846. — From the Historical Society. 

 The Eneis, &c., in English blank iambic, &,c., by J. Henry, M. D. ; 



London, 1845. — From the Author. 

 Observations sur le Voyage au Darfour, suivie d'un Vocabulaire de 



la Langue des Habitans, &c., par M. Jomard, Paris, 1845. — From 

 Rivista trimensal de Historia e Geographica, au Jornal do Institute 



Historico e Geographico Brazileiro, &tc. ; Rio Janeiro, tome 1, 



No. 1, 1846. — From H. A. Wise, American Minister, Brazil. 

 Brief Memoir, explanatory of a new trace of a front of fortification, in 



place of the present bastioned front, by W. H. Chase, Major To- 

 pographical Engineers ; New Orleans, 1846. — From 



