CORRESPONDENCE. 



WASHINGTON, January 5, 1841. 



SIR: The undersigned Committee, appointed to make arrangements for 

 the Annual Meeting of the National Institution for the Promotion of Sci- 

 ence, and the delivery of an Address upon the occasion, in common with the 

 large and highly respectable auditory who attended the delivery of your Dis. 

 course, on the 4th instant, have received the highest gratification from the 

 able manner in which the duty assigned to you by the Society was performed. 

 Believing that no better mode of making known the objects of this Insti- 

 tution can be adopted than by the publication of your excellent Discourse, we 

 pray that you will yield to our wish, by placing it at the disposal of the Insti- 

 tution for that purpose. 



In expressing to you the highly intellectual gratification we derived from 



the delivery of your Address, we take the occasion to offer to you, in behalf 



of the Society and for ourselves, our warmest thanks for the service which, 



on this occasion, you have so ably rendered to the interests of the Institution. 



We are, Sir, with great respect, your obedient servants, 



ALEX. MACOMB, ROB'T LAWRENCE, 

 N. TOWSCN, JNO. M. WYSE, 



W. W. SEATON, JNO. T. COCHRANE. 



PETER FORCE, 

 To Hon. JOEL R. POINSETT. 



WASHINGTON, January 6, 1841. 



GENTLEMEN : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your commu- 

 nication of the 5th instant, requesting a copy of the Discourse delivered be- 

 fore the National Institution for Ihe Promotion of Science, on its annual 

 meeting. 



In acceding to your request, which I do very cheerfully, I beg leave to ex- 

 press my grateful acknowledgments for the indulgent and very flattering 

 terms in which it is conveyed, and to assure you, that it will be a source or 

 great gratification to me to have, in any manner, contributed to the success 

 of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science. 



I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servant, 



J. R. POINSETT. 



Gen. A. MACOMB, ROBEIIT LAWRENCE, 



Gen. N. TOWSON, JOHN M. WYSE, 



W W. SEATON, JOHN T. COCHRANE, Esqs., 



PETER FORCE, Committee. 



