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Conseils aux Nouveaux Educateurs de Vers £ Soie. Par M. Fr6d6- 



ric de Boullcnois. 8vo. Paris, 1842. — From the .same. 

 Rapport sur une Proposition faite au Gbuvernement par M. de Las- 

 teyrie. Par le Secretaire perpetuel, G. Cuvier. ler Fevrier, 

 1813. Folio. — From the same. 

 A lithographic plate, entitled "Mosaique decouverte le 24 Octobre, 

 1831, dans une Maison de Pompei, dite la Maison du Faune." — 

 From the same. 

 Map of the River Sabine from Logan's Ferry to 32d degree of North 

 Latitude, showing the Boundary between the United States of 

 America and the Republic of Texas between said Points. — From 

 Major Graham, U. S. Topog. Engineers. 

 Part of the Boundary between the United States and Texas, from Sa- 

 bine River, northward, to the 36th mile Mound. — From the 

 same. 

 Part of the Boundary between the United States and Texas, North 

 of Sabine River, from the 39th to the 72d mile Mound. — From the 

 same. 

 Part of the Boundary between the United States and Texas, North 

 of Sabine River, from the 72d mile Mound to Red River. — From 

 the same. 

 Sabine Pass, and Mouth of the River Sabine in the Sea. Surveyed, 

 under the direction of Major J. D. Graham, U. S. Topog. Engi- 

 neers, by Lieut. T. J. Lee, Topog. Engineers, and Capt. P. J. 

 Pillans, Texan Army. — From the same. 

 Map of the River Sabine, from its Mouth on the Gulf of Mexico, in 

 the Sea, to Logan's Ferry, in Latitude 31° 58' 24" north. Show- 

 ing the Boundary between the United States and the Republic of 

 Texas. — From the same. 



Mr. Kane, pursuant to the order of the Society at its last 

 meeting, presented an obituary notice of the Hon. Isaac Rand 

 Jackson. 



Mr. Jackson was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, where his 

 family had resided for many years. After receiving an education in 

 the public schools of Massachusetts, to which he added largely by as- 

 siduous private study, he engaged for a short time in merchandise. 

 His health, however, led him to visit Europe soon after he had reach- 

 ed manhood, and he spent some years there in the cultivation of the 

 refined tastes by which he was afterwards distinguished. On his re- 

 turn, he studied law under Chief Justice Cranch of the District of Co- 



