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tion, one of the copies in the War Department of the lithographic prints and his- 
torical sketches having reference to these portraits. 
We have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servants, 
J. J. ABERT, Col. Corps Top. Engs. 
A. O. DAYTON, 
F. MARKOE, Jr. 
Committee National Institution. 
Department of War, June 21, 1841. 
Gentlemen : I have received your letter of the 18th inst., conveying the thanks 
of the National Institution for the deposit made by this Department, of Indian 
Portraits and Indian curiosities, and communicating the application of the Institu¬ 
tion for one of the copies in the Department of the lithographic prints and histori¬ 
cal sketches having reference to these portraits. These prints and sketches being 
properly appendages to the portraits, it gives me great pleasure to comply with the 
request. I have, accordingly, directed that a copy be sent to the Institution, to be 
placed on deposit with the portraits. 
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN BELL 
Col. J. J. Abert, 
A. O. Dayton, Esq., V Committee National Institution. 
F. Markoe, Jr., Esq. y 
The Committee on the Library reported that they had arranged 
the books, and presented their catalogue. 
The Department of American History and Antiquities, to which 
had been referred the letter of Mr. TefFt, Corresponding Secretary of 
the Georgia Historical Society, inquiring for materials relating to the 
History of Georgia, upon which Dr. W. Bacon Stevens was engaged, 
made a report upon the documents in the Library of the Institution 
likely to be useful for the purpose. 
The following communications to the Corresponding Secretary, 
were read: 
From George Read, U. S. Consul, Trieste: 
Malaga, March 23, 1841. 
Dear Sir: I take the liberty of sending by the brig Isaac Franklin, Captain 
Wm. Smith, to New-York, a sample of cotton such as is cultivated on this coast, 
particularly in the District of Motril, fifty miles south of Granada, with a view of 
its being examined by some of those intelligent in the growth of the plant, and 
who will no doubt now be at Washington. 
I am told, for I am no judge myself, that the description is very fine, and it ap¬ 
pears to me that the longevity of the plant is a peculiarity, though, perhaps, that 
may be applicable only in climates like this, free from hard frosts; still I am induced 
