360 
PROCEEDINGS OF 
(1844, 
Package of Vegetable Silk produced by the Asclepias gigantea.— 
From Henry Hutchings , by the hands of Consul Harrison , Ja¬ 
maica. 
Cottus gobio, Sic., (two specimens.)— From C. H. Olmstead, Man¬ 
chester , Connecticut.. 
Box, containing a large and fine Portrait of General Jackson, by 
Earle.— From Major W. H. Chase, United States Engineer 
Corps. 
Two boxes, containing valuable Books, Engravings, Sic., Sic., from 
France.— From Alexandre Vattemare , Paris. 
Box, containing Skin of an Elk, Minerals, and other Curiosities.— 
From Capt. P. St. George Cooke , United States Dragoons , Fort 
Leavenworth. 
Box of Minerals, Sic.— From Harry Neale, of Unity , New Hamp¬ 
shire, by the hands of the Hon. Edmund Burke. House of Re¬ 
presentatives. 
Jar, containing two remarkable Fishes caught by him in the Chesa¬ 
peake, which he calls the Butterfly Fish.— From Lieut. W. D. 
Porter, United States Navy. 
Box, containing a splendid prepared Mammoth Lobster.— From 
Major W. Turnbull, in the name of Amos Laivrence, Jr., Bos¬ 
ton.. 
Bottle, containing a curious Worm, from the Isle of Pines.— From 
Lieut. Carlisle P. Patterson ,, United States Navy. 
A Bottle, containing Fucus Natans, or Gulf Weed, in flower.—- 
From Capt. Dornin, United States Navy. 
A box, containing living Plants of the Cherry, Wild Peach, &c., 
for cultivation.— From Major E. G. W. Butler, near Bayou 
Gould, Louisiana, by the hands of George Law, Baltimore. 
For the Library. 
East India Marine Society of Salem, 1 vol.—Supplement to the Ca~ 
talogue of the Museum of the Marine Society, 1 vol.—Journal of 
the Essex County Natural History Society, vol 1, No. 2, 1839, 
1 vol.—Catalogue of the Salem Athenssum, 1 vol.—Ephemerides 
Astronomicas, &c., Corimbra, 1843, calculated for 1845.— From 
Henry Wheatland, Salem. 
Around the World, See., by J. Henshaw Belsher, United States 
Navy, 2 vols., duodecimo.— From the Author. 
institut Royal de France, 1844, 1 vol.— From A. Vattemare. 
Jamaica Monthly Magazine, No. 1, April, 1844.—Report on the 
Mount Vernon Mining Company, of Kingston, Jamaica, 1844.—- 
From R. M. Harrison , United States Consul, Jamaica . 
Fac-Similes, on Copper Plates, of Hieroglyphics dug out of a mound 
in Pike County, Illinois.— From W. Y. Head, Warsaw, Illinois. 
History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Wm. H, Prescott, 3 vols., 
octavo, 1843.— From the Author , 
