Letter to the President of the United States on the disputed ter- 

 ritory ; by and from John 7>ee. 



Report of the Directors of the Connecticut Retreat for the In- 

 sane. From Dr. A. Brigham, Hartford, Ct. 



SPECIMENS. FOREIGN. 



Volcanic Ashes which fell on the deck of the Niantic, from Can- 

 ton to N. Y. From Dr. Parker. See this No. p. 198. 



A suite of Nova Scotia minerals. From the Rev. N. W. Coster, 

 of Parrsborn, N. S. 



SPECIMENS. DOMESTIC. 



Portions of the tusk of a mastodon. From Isaac Mills, Esq. 



Fresh-water and land shells from the neighborhood of Chillicotlie, 

 Ohio, 20 orders, 14 sub-genera, 101 species, and 453 specimens, 

 for the junior Editor of this journal. From Ji. Bourne, Esq., Chil- 

 licotlie, Ohio. 



A fine lumbar vertebrum of a Mastodon, with perfect spinous pro- 

 cesses and articulating surfaces. From Messrs. JYorth &f Stanley, 

 New Britain, Conn, where it was found. 



NEWSPAPERS. DOMESTIC. 



Texas Register, two numbers. 



Alexandria Gazette. From Tho. Blagden, Washington. 



American Anti-Slavery Reporter, 4 Nos. Genesee Slavery Re- 

 porter. Nos. 1, 2. Ohio Observer, 2 Nos. 



Hartford Review, containing an account of the Rock of De Kalb. 

 From C. Whiltlesey. 



Anti-Slavery Reporter, Nos. 10, 11. 



Milwaukie Advertiser, Dec. 19, with Governor's Message on the 

 Geological Survey of Wisconsin Territory- From J. A. L. 



New York Weekly Messenger. 



Galena Democrat, with an article on Mining; by S. Taylor. 

 From John V. Ingersoll. 



The Sun, Baltimore. From H. W. Ellsworth. Baltimore Sun, 

 with a notice of the translation of Swedenborg's Economia Regni 

 Animalis. 



New York Courier and Enquirer. From G, S. Silliman. 



Ohio Observer, Milwaukie Observer. From Charles J. Lynde, 

 Esq. 



Telegraph and Texas Register. 



Massachusetts Abolitionist. From J. E. Fuller. 



Cleveland Daily Herald. From Dr. Kxrlland, with account of 

 a death from fire in digging for a well, caused by a candle coming 

 in contact with carburelted hydrogen mixed with common air. 



Daily Pennant, St. Louis. From Charles C. Whittlesey, con- 

 taining meteorological observations made by Dr. Brown. 



