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American Bacillaria, part 1.; Desmidiacess; by J. W. Bailey, Pro¬ 
fessor Chemistry U. S. Military Academy, West Point.— From 
the Author. 
Essay on the means and importance of introducing the elements of 
Geometry into the general plan of popular education, with an 
Address to the President of the United States, and to the people 
of the District of Columbia, by D. McCurdy, of Fairhead.— From 
the Author. 
Species et iconographie generique des Animaux Articules, premiere 
partie, insectes coleopteres , par M. F. E. Guerin Meneville; pro¬ 
spectus.*— From the Publisher. 
Lettre sur le Rhopalodon, genre de saurien fossile, du versant occi¬ 
dental de l’oural, par G. Fischer de Waldheim, &c.; Moscow, 
1841.— From the Author. 
United States Literary Advertiser and Publisher’s Circular, New- 
York, November, 1841, by J. H. G. Langley.— From the Pub¬ 
lishers. 
Journal of the Franklin Institute, October, 1841.— From the Insti¬ 
tute. 
Description of an entire head and various other bones of the Masto¬ 
don, by W. E. Horner, M. D., and J. Hays, M. D.; 4to.; with 
plates ; Philadelphia.-— From the Authors. 
Untersuchungen fiber die Sprache, &c.; von Alexandre Schischkow, 
Admiral, &c.; translated by the Chevalier Goetz, St. Petersburg!], 
1826 ; 3 vols., Bvo.— From the Am. Phil. Society , Philadelphia , 
in the name of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburgh. 
An English Grammar, by D’Arcy A. French, 1831.— From the 
Author. 
Hon. Judge Cranch, from the committee to draft a memorial to 
Congress, praying for a Charter of Incorporation, submitted the same, 
which was adopted, and referred to the committee, with directions to 
obtain the signatures of the Officers and Directors of the National 
Institution, and to present it to Congress. 
Col. Totten, from the Department of Natural History, reported 
that the sum appropriated for the purchase of certain books was in¬ 
sufficient, Whereupon the amount needed was voted. 
