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ton, scapolite and green spinelle, from Franklin, (New-Jer- 

 sey) ; from Lewis C. Beck, various minerals from the states 

 of Vermont and New-Hampshire, including marble (polished) 

 from Pittsford, Shoreham and Middlebury, (Vermont,) quartz 

 aggregate from the the notch of the White Mountains, granu- 

 lar graphite from Goshen, (N. H.) made from Charlestown, 

 (N. H.) ; from Andrew F. Holmes, M. D. of Montreal, va- 

 rious minerals from Montreal and the Lachine canal, serpen- 

 tine in carbonate of lime, from the river Ottawas ; from Isaac 

 Mott, concreted carbonate of lime, from Canajoharie ; from 

 Edmund C. Genet, his vindication of his " Memorial on the 

 upward forces of fluids" ; from the New- York Lyceum, their 

 Annals, vol 2, Nos. 7 and 8 ; from William Mayell, steel 

 grained iron ore, from Vermont ; from Dr. Daniel James and 

 Erastus Corning, 12 varieties of gold ore and auriferous soils, 

 (including a specimen of reduced gold) from North Carolina ; 

 from L. C. Beck and Joseph Henry, an improved scale of 

 chemical equivalents, published by them ; from Henry W. 

 Snyder, a gorgonia. 



The curators also reported that Mr. William Caldwell had 

 deposited- the following articles : An Indian pappoose coun- 

 terpane, of dressed beaver, with bells ; four Indian pouches or 

 shot bags, from the Red River, worked in stained porcupine ; 

 an otter skin pouch ; two gourd rattles for pappooses, and an 

 Indian knife sheath with scalping knifes, (these two last from 

 the Columbia river); three Indian war head dresses, the 

 feathers of the golden eagle ; a bundle of Patagonian arrows ; 

 a bundle of arrows of the Sioux Indians, and also several from 

 the North West ; a hatchet ploughed up at fort William Hen- 

 ry, head of Lake George ; an Indian knife sheath, porcupine 

 worked; a calumet or pipe, from the Mississippi; a toma- 

 hawk taken at York, Upper Canada, in the attack under Gen. 

 Pike ; a part of the keel of the ship Endeavour, in which 

 Capt. Cook made his first voyage. This ship came to New- 

 port, (R. I.) in 1792, where it was condemned as unsea wor- 

 thy. The keel was purchased by a cabinet maker, and from 

 him the present piece was obtained. 



Mr. Mayell gave an account of the processes used in hat 

 making, accompanied with an exhibition of the different states 

 of the materials used, at the various stages of the manufacture. 



Dr. T. R. Beck read a communication on the disinfecting 

 powers of the chlorides of lime and soda, as recently ascer- 

 tained in France, by M. Labarraque. 



Mr. Deming presented drawings, and made sundry ex- 

 planations of a mode invented by him of propelling canal 

 boats by steam power. 



