THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 
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Offering to publish at his own expense, with illustrations, his paper 
on the megatherioid fossils of the United States, read at the meeting 
of April, 1844. 
From D. Groux, New York, June 15, 1845: On the subject of 
his large and valuable cabinet of coins, medals, &c., offered by him 
for sale to the Institute. 
*From Verina S. Moore, Newbern, North Carolina, June 20, 
1845: Description of the manner in which one of the bolts to which 
Columbus was chained when a prisoner at St. Domingo, was pro- 
cured by the late Purser R. S. Moore, U. S. Navy, in 1844. 
*From C. S. Todd, American minister in Russia, July 4, 1845 : 
Describing an undecayed body that was buried one hundred and 
thirty years ago at Revel, in Russia, & c. 
*From C. Edwards Lester, U. S. consul, Genoa, July 29, 1845: 
On the scientific meetings of Italian savans. 
*From J. G. Bruff, Washington, August 12, 1845: Description 
of the effects of lightning on a house near Washington, by which 
three persons were destroyed, with an illustrative drawing. 
*From Captain J. H. Aulick, U. S. Navy, August 19, 1845: 
Notice of Mr. Wheelright, an American, who first introduced steam 
navigation into the Pacific, &c. 
From Robert Wilson, Louisiana, August 22, 1845: Describing 
the silk plant of Louisiana, &c. 
*From J. C. Pickett, late U. S. minister to Lima, Peru, August 
23, 1845 : On the subject of guano of Peru, &c. 
From M. G. de Lisboa, Envoy Extraordinary, &c., Brazil, Au- 
gust 24, 1845: Proposing to establish relations of correspondence, 
&c., between the National Institute, and the Historical and Geogra- 
phical Institute of Brazil. 
*From W, Maxwell Wood, M. D., U. S. Navy, (enclosed in 
letter from Mr. Pickett,) August 25, 1845 : Description of the 
volcano of Kilauea, or Pele’s Den, Sandwich Islands. 
From Mr. McGuigan, Philadelphia, August 30, 1845: Proposing 
to buy the animals sent to the Institute by the Hon. Mr. Wise, U. S. 
minister in Brazil, or to exchange objects of natural history for them. 
From T. W. Bacot, Postmaster, Charleston, September 3, 1845: 
Announcing that he has a fine rattlesnake, sent for the Institute by 
Mr. Tharin, and asking how he is to send it on, &c. 
*From General Thomas H. Bradley, of Tennessee, September 4, 
1845: Correspondence respecting the military coat worn by General 
Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and the remarks of N. P. 
Trist, chief clerk, Department of State, made before the Institute on 
the occasion of the presentation of the coat by General Bradley, in 
the name of the citizens of Tennessee. 
# From the Rev. George Duffield, Detroit, September 8, 1845: 
Observations on the mineral region of Lake Superior, &c. 
*From Captain Phil. St. George Cooke, first regiment U. S. dra- 
goons, September 9, 1845 : Describing the recent expedition to the 
Rocky Mountains by the dragoons, under Colonel Kearney, and the 
