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PROCEEDINGS OP 
[ 1844, 
Box of Minerals, &c.—• From Wm. Oland Bourne, Brooklyn, Lornr 
Island. 
Forty-five Roman Coins, (forty-four silver, one bronze ;) fifteen 
mixed Coins, (fourteen silver, one bronze;) two Alexander Coins, 
(silver;) nine Corinthian Coins, (silver;) eight Greek Coins, (sil¬ 
ver;) seven Egyptian Coins, Ptolemies, (one silver, six bronze.) 
—From Gouverneur Paulding , New York. 
Box, Copper Ores of Jamaica.— From Robert M. Harrison, United 
States Consul, Jamaica. 
Box, from Gibraltar, containing part of the Machinery of the Steamer 
Missouri, in a semi-fused condition.— From Hon. C. Cushing, 
Minister to China. 
Box, Brazilian Birds.— From Capt. H. H. Cocke, U. S. Navy. 
Box, containing one hundred and seventy-six small Coins, of the 
middle age, chiefly from Norway, of fifty-six different Stamps, 
and many duplicates to enable the Institute to exchange, from 
the Numophyiaciurn of the University of which he is Profes¬ 
sor.— From Professor C. A. Holmboe, Christiania, Norway. 
For the Library. 
Statistical Works of M. Cesar Moreau, Paris.— From the Author. 
Pamphlets, &c.— From W. W. Andrews, United States Consul, 
Malta. 
Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, vol. 2, part 3; 
Edinburg, 1843.— From the Society. 
Report on the Machine at the Trevasean Mine, for ascent and de¬ 
scent of Miners; Purport of a paper relative to Springs of Water, 
by R. W. Fox, U. S. Consul, Falmouth ; Report Linnsean Society 
of New England, respecting a large marine animal, supposed to 
be a Serpent, seen near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August, 
1817.— From L. H. Sheldon. 
Report on Steam Navigation in the Pacific, with an account of the 
Coal Mines of Chile and Panama, &c., he., by William Wheel- 
right; London, 1843.— From the Author. 
One Trunk, Case, Package, containing Books, he., forwarded by 
Henry Ledyard, U. S. Charge d’Affaires, France.— From Alex¬ 
andre Vattemare. 
Mecanique Celeste, of La Place, translated, with a Commentary, by 
N. Bowditch, and a Memoir of the Translator, by his Son, 4 vols., 
quarto.— From Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Boston. 
Description of an African Beetle, allied to Scarabseus Polyphemus, 
with remarks on other Insects of the same group, by T. W. Har¬ 
ris, M. D., Librarian Harvard University.— From Rev. Thomas 
S. Savage, M. D. 
Opere dell’ abate Teodoro Monticelli, (Perpetual Secretary of the 
Royal Academy of Sciences of Naples;) Napoli, 1841, 2 vols., 
quarto.—Appendice al Prodrome della Mineralogia Vesuviana, di 
