THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. 
79 
1841.] 
From A. Bourne, Chilicothe: Stating that he had forwarded for 
the Institution six hundred and fifty specimens of Shells, viz: 
3 Anatifera, 
1 Pecten, 
13 Planorbis, 
1 Pteroceras, 
2 Solen, 
1 Ostrea, 
20 Melania, 
2 Strombus, 
1 My a, 
2 Crepidula, 
3 Melanopsis, 
1 Cassis, 
2 Tellina, 
3 Ancylus, 
2 Ampularia, 
3 Purpura, 
2 Donax, 
3 Bulla, 
13 Paludina, 
3 Buccinum, 
2 Astarte, 
45 Helix, 
l Neritina, 
2 Terebra, 
12 Cyclas, 
1 Succinea, 
1 Natica, 
2 Columbella, 
5 Venus, 
8 Bulemus, 
1 Nerita, 
2 Mitra, 
1 Area, 
4 Achatina, 
11 Littorina, 
1 Marginella, 
5 Alasmodon, 
20 Pupa, 
5 Lacuna, 
1 Ovulum, 
248 Unio, 
4 Auricula, 
2 Cerithium, 
10 Cyprcea, 
40 Anodon, 
21 Cyclostoma, 
2 Fusus, 
14 Oliva, 
1 Mytilus, 
11 Limnoea, 
1 Pyrula, 
2 Conus. 
4 Modiola, 
6 Physa, 
1 Murex, 
The Corresponding Secretary announced that two thousand copies 
of Bulletin No. 1 of the Proceedings of the National Institution 
had been printed, of which upwards of one thousand copies had been 
distributed, and five hundred copies set aside as a reserve for the 
future. 
A Committee was appointed to correspond with the officers of the 
Navy and the Revenue service ; to invite them to make collections of 
shells and other marine productions; and to point out the best mode 
of collecting and preserving them, for the Cabinet of the Institu¬ 
tion. 
It was Resolved , That the death of William Henry Harrison, 
late President of the United States, and an honorary member of the 
National Institution, be inserted on the Journal, with an obituary 
notice. And, 
Resolved , That the President of the Institution be requested to 
appoint a member to prepare and deliver before the Institution an 
Address on the life and character of the deceased. 
The Collections, Library, &c., of the National Institution, were 
ordered to be removed to the rooms appropriated to its use, in the 
new Patent Office, and the meetings of the Institution hereafter to 
be held at the said rooms. 
