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FOURTH BULLETIN OF 
[ 1845 . 
18, 1845: Referring to Captain Aulick, U. S. Navy, for informa¬ 
tion respecting the fate of the U. S. sloop Wasp, Captain Blakely. 
*From G. Voglesang, Austrian consul, New Orleans, March 3, 
1845: Observations on the practicability and advantage of introdu¬ 
cing a universal system of weights, measures, and coins, among all 
nations, &c. } ; 
From Eugenio Alberi, of Florence, March 6, 1845 : Offering to 
the Institute, by permission of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a copy 
of the complete works of Galileo Galilei, recently published from the 
original manuscripts. 
From R. M. Hamilton, U. S. consul, Monte Video, March 8, 
1845 : Promising that, when peace shall be restored, he will collect 
for, and forward to, the Institute, a full series of mineral and other 
specimens of the Banda Oriental. 
From Dr. Joseph Johnson, Charleston, South Carolina, March 
10, 1845: Biography (MSS.) of Captain Blakely, U. S. Navy, who 
commanded, and was lost in the U. S. sloop-of-war Wasp, during the 
last war with England ; with a chart giving the supposed route of 
that ill-fated vessel. 
From D. S. Lamme, of Missouri, March 24, 1845: Proposing to 
sell, to the Institute, the large collection of mastodon, and other fossil 
bones, &c., from Missouri, now deposited in the great hall of the 
Patent Office. 
*From M. Fialin de Persigny, Paris, March 24, 1845: Giving 
an abstract of his new theory of the design and uses of the pyra¬ 
mids, he. 
# From Commodore J. D. Elliott, U. S. Navy, April 8, 1845: 
Correspondence with General Andrew Jackson respecting the Roman 
sarcophagus, he. 
From A. H. Palmer, American and foreign agency, N. Y., April 
15, 1845: Announcing a present from Siam for the Institute. 
*From Robert Wickliffe, jr., U. S. Charge d’Affaires, Sardinia, 
Turin, April 20, 1845 : Historic hints on the origin of the Guelphs 
and Ghibbelines, he. 
*From J. A. Bryan, late Charge d’Affaires of the United States at 
Lima, April 23, 1845 : Second letter on the Isthmus of Darien, and 
Panama, he. 
# From Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. Navy, April 29, 1845: 
Giving a list and description of articles of curiosity, he ., brought 
home by him from the African station. 
From S. T. Olney, Secretary of the Providence Franklin Society, 
Providence, Rhode Island, April 30, 1845: Proposing to exchange 
plants, &c., with the Institute, he. 
*From William H. Thomas, Washington, May 5, 1845: On the 
knowledge of the mechanic arts and progress of improvement among 
the Indians, &c. 
*From Stanislaus Hernisz, late attache of the U. S. Chinese mis¬ 
sion, May 6, 1845: On the Chinese language, with illustrations, he. 
From William B. Hodgson, Savannah, Georgia, May 18, 1845: 
