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FOURTH BULLETIN OF 
[1845. 
18, 1845: Referring to Captain Aulick, U. S. Navy, for informa- 
tion respecting the fate of the U. S. sloop Wasp, Captain Blakely. 
# From G. Voglesang, Austrian consul, New Orleans, March 3, 
1845: Observations on the practicability and advantage of introdu- 
cing a universal system of weights, measures, and coins, among all 
nations, &c. 
From Eugenio Alberi, of Florence, March 6, 1845: Offering to 
the Institute, by permission of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a copy 
of the complete works of Galileo Galilei, recently published from the 
original manuscripts. 
From R. M. Hamilton, U. S. consul, Monte Video, March 8, 
1845 : Promising that, when peace shall be restored, he will collect 
for, and forward to, the Institute, a full series of mineral and other 
specimens of the Banda Oriental. 
From Dr. Joseph Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, March 
10, 1845: Biography (MSS.) of Captain Blakely, U. S. Navy, who 
commanded, and was lost in the U. S. sloop-of-war Wasp, during the 
last war with England ; with a chart giving the supposed route of 
that ill-fated vessel. 
From D. S. Lamme, of Missouri, March 24, 1845 : Proposing to 
sell, to the Institute, the large collection of mastodon, and other fossil 
bones, h c., from Missouri, now deposited in the great hall of the 
Patent Office. 
*From M. Fialin de Persigny, Paris, March 24, 1845: Giving 
an abstract of his new theory of the design and uses of the pyra- 
mids, &c. 
*From Commodore J. D. Elliott, U. S. Navy, April 8, 1845: 
Correspondence with General Andrew Jackson respecting the Roman 
sarcophagus, he. 
From A. H. Palmer, American and foreign agency, N. Y., April 
15, 1845: Announcing a present from Siam for the Institute. 
*F rom Robert Wickliffe, jr. , U. S. Charge d’Affaires, Sardinia, 
Turin, April 20, 1845 : Historic hints on the origin of the Guelphs 
and Ghibbeiines, &c. 
*From J. A. Bryan, late Charge d’Affaires of the United States at 
Lima, April 23, 1845: Second letter on the Isthmus of Darien, and 
Panama, he. 
# From Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. Navy, April 29, 1845: 
Giving a list and description of articles of curiosity, h c., brought 
home by him from the African station. 
From S. T. Olney, Secretary of the Providence Franklin Society, 
Providence, Rhode Island, April 30, 1845: Proposing to exchange 
plants, he., with the Institute, &;c. 
# From William H. Thomas, Washington, May 5, 1845: On the 
knowledge of the mechanic arts and progress of improvement among 
the Indians, he. 
*From Stanislaus Hernisz, late attache of the U. S. Chinese mis- 
sion, May 6, 1845: On the Chinese language, with illustrations, &c. 
From William B. Hodgson, Savannah, Georgia, May 18, 1845: 
