PROCEEDINGS OF 
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[Dec, 
States, as will appear by the following letter, had cheerfully consent¬ 
ed to become the Patron of the National Institution : 
Washington, December 1 3, 1841. 
Sir : I have to regret that public engagements deprive me of the satisfaction of 
being present at the contemplated meeting of the National Institution for the Pro¬ 
motion of Science. 
I cannot fail, however, to communicate to you the assurance of the deep interest 
which I take in the objects of the Institution, my best wishes for its complete suc¬ 
cess, and my congratulations upon those achievements which have already crowned 
its undertakings, and which furnish at once an evidence of its present enterprise 
and progress, and a high promise of eminent future triumph and usefulness. 
I salute you and your associates of the Institution with sentiments of high respect 
and consideration, TONN" yy jjFI T? 
To ike Vice-President of the National Institution , Washington. 
The following donations were received: 
For the Cabinet. 
Description of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention 
of Printing, (German .)—From Dr. Flugel , Corresponding Mem¬ 
ber National Institution , Consul of the U. S. at Leipzig , by the 
hands of Hon. J. Q. Adams. 
Print emblematic of the same .—From the same. 
Specimens of Artificial Birds .—From the same. 
Horns of a Moose, ( Cervus alces ,) killed near the head of the North 
West Branch of the Penobscot river, on the disputed territo¬ 
ry .”—From Randolph Coyle. 
Fish, and Crustacea, ( Astacus # coecus ,) from the Mammoth Cave, 
Kentucky .—From Mrs. Col. Croghan. 
Crystals, Stalactites, &c., from the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.— 
From Mrs. Col. Croghan. 
Copy of an ancient Egyptian Monumental Slab (original in Naval 
Lyceum, New-York) on lithographic paper, done by a new and 
simple process, by Lieut. Harwood .—From Lieut. Andrew Allen 
Harwood , U. S. N. 
Front view of Whitehall, near Newport, Rhode-Island, formerly the 
residence of Dean Berkely; and view of Hanging Rock, and Sa- 
chuest Beach and Purgatory, near Newport, (the rock under which 
Dean Berkely wrote his “ Minute Philosopher,”) drawn and litho- 
graphed by Lieut. Harwood.—From the same. 
