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PROCEEDINGS OF 
[Jan. 
From A. H. Palmer, New-York. 
From J. Coppinger, New-York. 
From W. Eacon Stevens, M. D., Savannah, Georgia. 
From Hon. J. R. Ingersoll, Member of Congress. 
From Captain J. Sanders, Engineer Corps, New-York. 
From J. H. B. Latrobe, Baltimore. 
From Dr. Samuel G. Morton, Philadelphia. 
From Joshua Leavitt, New-York. 
From S. F. B. Morse, New-York. 
From James Glenn, Pratt’s Hollow, New-York. 
From H. H. Sylvester, Washington. 
From Hon. Albert Gallatin, New-York. 
From Dr. Marcus C. Buck, U. S. Army. 
From W. Harvey Kenney, M. D., Philadelphia, 
From Edmund F. Brown, Washington. 
From Jared Sparks, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
From Mrs. Dr. James Mitchell, Sidney, New South Wales, 
From M. Jomard, Paris. 
From Camille Zeringue, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. 
From R. C. Taylor, Philadelphia. 
FromT. A. Conrad, Philadelphia. 
The following letter from the Hon. H. S. Legare, Attorney Gen¬ 
eral of the United States, was read: 
Office of the Attorney General, December 18, 1841. 
Gentlemen : I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 1st instant, in 
which you inform me, on behalf of the National Institution for the Promotion of 
Science, that its constitution makes the Heads of Departments, at Washington, 
directors of it, provided they consent to serve. 
Feeling, as I do, a lively interest in the promotion of all liberal studies, I shall 
be too happy to contribute, in however slight a degree, to further the objects of your 
society. But in accepting, as I do, very gratefully, the honor to which I have been 
officially called by you, I must bespeak for myself the indulgence which I know 1 
shall require, if the active performance of my duties, as a Director, be prevented by 
engrossing business of a different kind. 
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, gentlemen, your obliged and 
obedient servant, H< s> LEGARE. 
Messrs. J. J. Abert, 
A. O. Dayton, 
Francis Markoe, Jr. 
