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modification, were adopted, and a committee appointed to 
wait upon the Directors, and ask their sanction and consent. 
The following donations were received : 
History of the Art of Typography from its origin to its present 
improved state, by Dr. Karl Falkenstein, Leipzic, 1840.— 
From T. G. Flugel , U. S. consul at Leipzic. 
Description of the Guttenberg Festivity, as celebrated at Leip¬ 
zic.— From the same. 
Head of a Mexican idol. Heylin’s Cosmography, folio, Lon¬ 
don, 1703. Bernard’s Dictionary, German and French, of 
German terms of Mineralogy and Metallurgy.— From Robt. 
Greenhow. 
Copper coins.—- From James Gaither . 
Two earthen vessels, called juacuas, from Peru.— From PV. 
F. Zantzinger , United States Navy. 
An article on Electricity in steam, by Dr. Locke.— From 
the Author. 
A table of Meteorological Observations, by Dr. B. B. Brown, 
of St. Louis.— From the Author. 
Catalogue of the plants of Milwaukie, Wiskonsin, by J. A. 
Lapham.— From the Author. 
Reply to imputations against the United States, contained 
in recent foreign journals, by Eugene A. Vail, (French,) 
Paris, 1837. Account of the Indians of North America, by 
Eugene A. Vail, Paris, 1840, (French.)— From the Author. 
Inquiry into the received opinions of Philosophers and Histori¬ 
ans on the natural progress of the Human race, by Joel R. 
Poinsett, Charleston, 1834. Eulogium on the life and char¬ 
acter of Thomas S, Grimke, by James H. Smith, Charleston, 
1835. Address to the Literary and Philosophical Society 
of South Carolina, delivered in Charleston, 10th August, 
1814, by Stephen Elliott, 4to, Charleston, 1814.— From Jos. 
Johnson , M. D., Charleston. 
Oration before the American Institute by Professor C. Mason, 
2d edition, New York, 1S40.— From the Author. 
Dissertation on the nature and character of the Chinese system 
of writing, in a letter to John Vaughan ? Esq., together with 
