PROCEEDINGS OF 
[ 1844 . 
Resolved , That the proceedings of the meeting of the Board of 
Management, which took place at the office of the Secretary of State, 
on the 23d instant, be approved; and that the Board be empowered 
and requested to take any steps which may be necessary to promote 
and complete the proposed arrangements. 
Which was adopted. 
Mr. Richard S. Coxe, after some preliminary remarks, in regard 
to the loss sustained by the Institute in the death of the Hon. Lewis 
F. Linn, late U. S. Senator, from the State of Missouri, and one of 
its most active and efficient members, offered the following resolution, 
which was unanimously adopted: 
Resolved , That the National Institute have received, with sincere 
regret, the intelligence of the death of our highly esteemed member, 
the Hon. Lewis F. Linn, Senator from the State of Missouri. 
That the Hon. Thomas H. Benton be respectfully requested to 
prepare a biographical memoir of the deceased, to be deposited 
among the archives of the Institute. 
(Stated Meeting, January 8 , in which are incorporated the proceed¬ 
ings of the Stated Meeting of February , 1844. 
The Recording Secretary announced the following donations : 
For the Cabinet . 
Forty-five specimens of Insects, (many of them but recently de¬ 
scribed, and all extremely rare,) from near Cape Palmas, Western 
Africa.— From Rev . Thomas S. Savage , M. D ., of the Protes¬ 
tant Episcopal Mission in Africa . 
Catalogue of Insects from Dr. Savage. 
No. 1. Cicindella, 
2. Carabus, 
3. 
4. Galerita, 
5. Lamia ornata, 
6 . 
7. 
8. Cetonia, 
9. “ (male and female,) 
10. Coryphe guttata, (Olivier,) 
11. Cetonia aurata ? 
12. “ marginata, (male and fe¬ 
male.) 
13. Platygenia zainca, 
No. 14. Ateucus cupreus, 
15. Lucanus Savageii, Hope, 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. Dynastes, (male and female,) 
20. Sagra, “ 
21. Goliathus cacicus, “ 
22. “ quadri-maculatus, 
23. Calandra palmarum, (male and 
female.) 
24. Orgetes rhinoseros, 
25. Dytiscus, (male and female.) 
26. Buprestis aurata, “ 
u Most of these insects were undescribed till they were sent to the 
Rev. F. W. Hope, President of the London Entomological Society, 
who has since described and named the new species.” 
