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PROCEEDINGS OF 
[ 1844. 
From John O. Barnes, Custom-House, Boston, May 10, 1844. 
From R. M. Harrison, U. S. Consul, Jamaica, to Hon. J. C. Cal¬ 
houn, May 11, 1844: Sending a package for the Institute, which he 
requests him to hand to the Secretary. 
From B. Silliman, Jr., Washington, May 13, 1844: Communi¬ 
cating vote of Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, in 
reply to an invitation to attend the meeting of the Institute. 
From J. K. Townsend, Washington, May 14, 1844. 
From R. M. Harrison, U. S. Consul, Jamaica, May 16, 1844: 
Transmitting report of the French Engineer on the Panama canal, 
and asking the opinion of the Institute upon it. 
From Butler Maury, Secretary U. S. Ship Constellation, Norfolk, 
Virginia, May 16, 1844. 
From Major W. H. Chase, Pensacola, May 16, 1844. 
From Ehvood Morris, Philadelphia, May 21, 1844: Acknow¬ 
ledging membership, and enclosing $5 towards defraying the ex¬ 
penses of the publication of a volume of proceedings, &c. 
From Joseph T. Dutten, Brooklyn, L. I., May 21, 1844. 
From Alexandre Vattemare, Paris, May 21, 1844: Transmitting 
letters of acknowledgment from distinguished persons recently made 
members of the Institute; referring to former letters, in which he 
recommends that a difference be made in the rank of members ap¬ 
pointed ; asks for money to enable him to send on the sculpture and 
books on his hands, &c. 
From Professor W. A. Norton, Newark, Delaware, May 27, 
1844: Transmitting his paper on the “ nebular hypothesis/’ for 
publication, &c. 
From Masters, Markoe, & Co., New York, May 28, 1844: An¬ 
nouncing the receipt of two large boxes for the Institute. 
From S. B. Dusenberry, Assistant Quartermaster, Baltimore, 
May 29, 1844: Communicating agent’s receipts and expenses on a 
large box for the Institute. 
From J. Ward Andrews, Marietta, Ohio, May 31, 1844: Ac¬ 
knowledging membership, and enclosing $5 towards the publication 
of the proceedings. 
From Wm. Y. Head, Warsaw, Illinois, May, 1844: Transmitting 
fac-similes of certain copper plates, bearing hieroglyphics, dug out of 
a mound in Pike County, Illinois, by Robert Wiley. 
From J. W. Monette, Washington, Michigan, June 1, 1844: 
Acknowledging membership, and enclosing plan of his work on the 
valley of the Mississippi. 
From Professor E. Gill, College Point, New York, June 1, 
1844. 
From M. Geoffroy St. Hillaire, Paris, June 4, 1844: Sending 
duplicate list of birds presented to the Institute in 1842, by the Mu¬ 
seum d’Histoire Naturelle, of Paris. 
From W. H. Prescott, Boston, June 4, 1844: Acknowledging 
