THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 
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1846 .] 
From John Jay, Corresponding Secretary of the Historical Soci¬ 
ety of New York, February 21, 1846: Asking the co-operation of 
the Institute in an application to Congress to publish a sufficient 
number of copies of the scientific books of the Exploring Expedi¬ 
tion to supply the institutions and societies of the United States, &c. 
From Robert Hamilton, U. S. consul, Monte Video, February 21, 
1846 : Describing the guano of Patagonia, of which be sends a sam¬ 
ple to the Institute, &,c. 
From Alexandre Vattemare, France, February 24, 1846: En¬ 
closing a list of books, &,c., for the Institute, which he has sent in a 
box to the Secretary of the Treasury. 
From Frederick A. Davisson, M. D., Loudon county, Virginia, 
February 25, 1846: Stating that he has sent to the Institute a box 
of shells and reptiles, &c., of Virginia, &c. 
From Hon. Lewis Cass, U. S. Senate, February 28, 1846: Re¬ 
specting the Memorial of the Institute, which he has presented to die 
Senate, &l c. 
From the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, 
March 1, 1846: Circular—invitation to the meeting to be held in 
New York in September, and list of papers to be read before it. 
From J. G. Norwood, M. D., Madison, Iowa, March 2, 1846: 
Description (with plates) of a new fossil fish, from the palaeozic 
rocks of Indiana, by himself and D. D. Owen, M. D., to which they 
propose to give the name of macropetalychtbys rapheidolaris. 
From John P. Brown, U. S. Dragoman, Turkey, March 10, 
1846: Describing the Kundret Halvasi, or providential sweet¬ 
meats, which resembles the manna of the Israelites, and is used as 
a food in Asia Minor; and presenting a box of it to the Institute. 
From Christopher Hughes, late minister of the United States at 
the Hague, Baltimore, March 18, 1846: Presenting a collection of 
Irish birds, made at Londonderry by his brother-in-law, the late 
Col. Samuel Moore, of Baltimore. 
From the Historical and Geographical Society of Brazil, by M. 
F. Lagos, Perpetual Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, March 25, 1846: 
Presenting the transactions of the society, &c. 
From Alexandre Vattemare, Paris, April 15, 1846: Announcing 
that Louis Philip, King of the French, had presented to the Na¬ 
tional Institute a splendid copy of the great work on the expedition 
to Egypt, and mentioning other valuable presents, &c. 
From B. S. Buckley, West Dresden, New York, April 28, 1846: 
Presenting, through die Hon. Mr. Ellsworth, a collection of dried 
plants, and offering others, and asking for the bulletins of the In¬ 
stitute, &c. 
From H. P. Sartwe.ll, Penn Yan, New York, April 30, 1845: 
Sending, by the Hon. Mr. Ellsworth, a collection of Carices, and cat¬ 
alogue of plants, and asking for the publications of the Institute, &c. 
From C. A. Holmboe, Professor of Oriental Languages, Chris¬ 
tiania, Norway, May 2, 1846 : Transmitting to the Institute, by the 
hands of M. Lovenskiold, the newly appointed minister of Sweden 
