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One Silver Coin.— From Edward Stubbs. 
One German Coin.— From Edward Smith, Philadelphia. 
Two Coins.—- From George Henley. 
One Box of interesting and valuable Fossils, from Ohio.— From 
Edwin Fuss ell, M. D., through J. K. Townsend . 
Cluster of Oyster Shells attached to a Stone, from Annapolis, Md.— 
From W. S. Green. 
Twenty specimens of Minerals, from Loudon County, Virginia.—> 
From J. B. Dutton. 
One Silver Token, or Bank of England Dollar, George III, 1804.— 
From George A. Davis, Washington. 
Two Continental Notes.— From George Lindweaver, Pennsylvania. 
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For the Library. 
Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in the 
Prussian States, part 32d, (vol. 16, part 1 ;) Berlin, 1842, quarto, 
(in German.)—List of Members and Corresponding Societies of 
the Prussian Horticultural Society, (in German.)— From Professor 
Link, (Director,) in the name of the Society. 
Annuaire Magnetique et Meteorologique du Corps des Engenieurs 
des Mines de Russie, ou Receuil d’Observations Magneliques et 
Meteorologiques, faites dans FEntendue de F Empire de Russie, 
&c., (published by order of the Emperor Nicholas I, and under 
the auspices of M. Le Conte Cancrine, Chief of the Corps of En- 
gineers of Mines, and Minister of Finance,) par A. T. KupfFer, 
Annee, 1840, (quarto ;) St. Petersburg, 1842.— From Major Gen . 
Tcheffkine, Russian Mining Engineers. 
The same.— From Count Cancrine. 
Annuaire du Journal des Mines de Russie, Annee 1839; St. Peters¬ 
burg, 1842, octavo.—- From Major General Tcheffkine, fyc. 
Narrative of Capt. David Woodward and four Seamen, in the Island 
of Celebes, and Manners and Customs of the country, and an In¬ 
troduction and Appendix, Sic.; London, 1805, by Wm.Vaughan.— 
Tracts on Docks and Commerce, printed between the years 1793 
and 1800, &lc., with an Introduction, Memoir, and Miscellaneous 
Pieces, by Wm. Vaughan, Esq.; London, 1839.— From the Au¬ 
thor. 
Plan of the Canal which unites the River Mayn with the Danube, 
(Wheaton’s letter, 25th of January, 1843.)— From H. Wheaton, 
American Minister, Berlin. 
First, Second, Third, and Fourth Annual Reports of the Ohio Luna¬ 
tic Asylum, for 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.— From Dr. W. M. 
Awl, Superintendent, by the hands of the Hon. James Mat¬ 
thews, M. C. 
History and Memoirs of the Imperial Society for the General Min* 
eralogical Sciences, of St. Petersburg, (in German,) vol. 1, in 2 
parts, octavo; St. Petersburg, 1842.—Summary of the Fossils of 
