344 
PROCEEDINGS OF 
[ 1844. 
1843 : Enclosing extract of a letter from Col. Edward Sabine, Royal 
Army, on the subject of Professor Locke’s magnetical researches in 
the vicinity of Lake Superior. 
Transportation Bill, New York, December 30, 1843: For a box 
from South America. 
From Rev. John G. Morris, D. D., Baltimore, January 1, 1844. 
From J. Dille, Newark, Ohio, January 2, 1844: Communicating 
notices of certain meteorological phenomena observed by him ; wish¬ 
ing to become a member, and offering his services, &c. 
From James Lawrence, Boston, January 3, 1844. 
From Capt. G. P. Upshur, U. S. Navy, Norfolk, January 4, 
1844. 
From Hon. Richard Rush, Sydenham, near Philadelphia, January 
6, 1844. 
From Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Boston, received January 6, 1844. 
From Robert Waugh, (to Hon. J. C. Spencer,) Mobile, January 
8, 1844. 
From Rev. Thomas S. Savage, M. D., Secretary of the Foreign 
Protestant Episcopal Missions, (Washington,) January 8, 1844: Pre¬ 
senting a valuable collection of beetles of West Africa, with a list 
and description, and promising to collect objects of interest for the 
Institute on his return to Africa, &c. 
From Dr. T. Purrington, Washington, January 8, 1844. 
From John K. Townsend, Washington, January 9, 1844. 
From Thos. S. Hinde, Mount Carmel, Illinois, January 10, 1844. 
From H. L. Ellsworth, Patent office, Washington, January 12, 
1844. 
From Rev. G. M. Butler. Georgetown, D. C., January 12, 
1844. 
From Dr. Robert E. Peyton, The Plains, Fauquier County, Vir¬ 
ginia, January 15,1844: Describing a remarkable case oflaborwhich 
was at the time of writing under his care, the issue of which he will 
communicate to the Institute. 
From P. P. Mayo, Norfolk, Virginia, January 15, 1844. 
From Dr. M. C. Buck, Washington, January 15, 1844. 
From Hon. John McP. Berrien, U. S. Senate, January 16, 
1844. 
From Rev. Professor Edward Hitchcock, Amherst, Massachu¬ 
setts, January 16, 1844. 
From J. Dille, Newark, Ohio, January 20, 1844: Expressing 
pleasure at having been made a member of the Institute, &c., and 
suggesting inquiry into the reason why all the great rivers of the globe 
run eastwardly or southeastwardly, &c. 
From Dr. C. Foreman, Washington University, Baltimore, Jan¬ 
uary 22, 1844 : Proposing to send to the Institute, at the instance of 
Dr. Habersham, the whole collection of fossil bones of the megathe¬ 
rium of Georgia, now in his bands, &c. 
