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The Charter, granted by his Majesty, King Charles II. to the Gover- 

 nor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island and 

 Providence-Plantations, in New England. Newport, 1767. — ■ 

 From the same. 



The New Testament, translated into the Greenland Language by the 

 Missionaries of the Unitas Fratrum. London, 1822. — From the 

 same. 



Description Geographique des Isles Antilles possedees par les An- 

 glois. Paris, 1758. — From the same. 



The Select Medical Library. Edited by John Bell, M. D. Vol. II. 

 Nos. 1 to 11. Philadelphia, 1837-8.— From the Editor, 



Memorial of Facts connected with the History of Medallic Engraving 

 and the Process of M. Collas. By V. Nolte. London, 1838.— 

 From Mr. Thomas Sully. 



FOR THE CABINET. 



A mummy of the Ibis, in an earthen jar, taken from one of the cata- 

 combs of Egypt. — From Lieut. P. Drayton, U. S. Navy. 



Four small models of human mummies; two of wood, and two of 

 baked clay. — From the same. 



Several suites of minerals, comprising 33 specimens. Nos. 1 to 18, 

 rocks and ores from the Island of Cuba; Nos. 19 to 31, minerals 

 from the mineral region of Missouri; No. 32, sulphuret of cop- 

 per, from Flemington, N. J. ; No. 33, bituminous coal, from the 

 banks of the Black Warrior river, Alabama.— From Mr. Thomas 

 G. Clemson. 



The Committee on the solar eclipse of the 18th of Septem- 

 ber made a Report in part, comprising the Observations made 

 at Philadelphia, the principal results of which are as follows: 



The observations made at Philadelphia are fifteen in number. A 

 list of observers, telescopes, &c, is given in the following table. The 

 correction in the third column is to be added algebraically to the lati- 

 tude of the place of observation, to obtain that of the State House, 

 + 39° 56' 58". The correction in the fourth column is likewise to 

 be added to the local longitude in time, to obtain that of the State 

 House, — 5h Om 39.2s. 



