290 PROCEEDINGS OF [1843, 
To Samuel W. Woodhouse, Philadelphia, March 8, 1843: En¬ 
closing copy of a vote of thanks of the Institute. 
Letters and Communications . 
From Professor Link, Director of the Society for Promotion of 
Horticulture in the Prussian States, Berlin, February 27, 1843 : 
Transmitting transactions and list of members of the Horticultural 
Society, from the Society. 
From C. TchefFkine, Major General Russian Mining Engineers, 
St. Petersburg, July 31, 1842: Enumerating the volumes formerly 
sent by him to the National Institute, and forwarding others, he. 
From the same, (to the Directors of the National Institute,) St. 
Petersburg, August, 1842: Transmitting certain volumes to the In¬ 
stitute. 
From the Linnsean Society, by John J. Bennett, Secretary, Lon¬ 
don, November 10, 1842: Acknowledging with thanks receipt of 
first and second bulletins of the National Institute, he. 
From Don Pedro de Angelis, Buenos Ayres, November 16, 1842 : 
Forwarding by Dr. Hassler, U. S. Navy, certain books for the In¬ 
stitute. 
From H. W. Gilbert, Buenos Ayres, November 19, 1842: For¬ 
warding by U. S. Ship Decatur a box of shells, he., for the Insti¬ 
tute. 
From Sociedad Economica Gaditana de Amigos del Pais, Cadiz, 
November 30,1842: Acknowledging letters, and transmitting formal 
acceptance of the correspondence of the Institute. 
From Royal Society of Sciences, Gottingen, December 5, 1842, 
by J. F. L. Hansmann, Secretary : Presenting the thanks of the 
Society for various publications of the Institute. 
From C. S. Todd, American Minister, St. Petersburg, December 
1842: Acknowledging letter of October, and enclosing copies of 
letters addressed by him to Major General Tcheffkine and M. Ou- 
waroff, thanking them for presents from the Imperial Academy and 
the Corps of Mining Engineers, he. 
From the Institut Fedagogique Central, by Professor Andres 
.Smirnoff, Secretary, St. Petersburg, December -if, 1842: Acknow¬ 
ledging first and second bulletins, &c., with thanks, he. 
From Lemuel Wells, U. S. Consul, St. Catharines, Brazil, De¬ 
cember 26, 1842: Stating that he has shipped by Brig John Suders, 
Capt. Mason, New York, a box containing twenty-seven dozen birds, 
and five cases of insects of Brazil, to the collector of New York, and 
also to the care of Gilbert Hopkins, of same place. 
From Theodore S. Fay, Secretary of Legation, Berlin, December 
28, 1842. 
From Wm. Vaughan, London, December 31, 1842: Presenting 
to the Institute several volumes, he. 
From Petty Vaughan, London, January 6, 1843. 
