Reeve also delineates the species collected by Cumming in the Philippines, without precise mention of the locality, as being larger (38 mm.),

NATHANIEL P. BANKS, Speaker of the House of Representatives: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives, in obedience to their resolution of the 17th instant, a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by a copy of the report of Superintendent Cumming in regard to his late expedition among the tribes of Indians on the Upper Missouri.

Leland tells us that the town of Fairford never flourished "before the cumming of the Tames into it.

George Eliot was writing an article on Weimar for Fraser, on Cumming for Westminster, and translating Spinoza's Ethics.

FACSIMILE OF FIRST MORSE ALPHABET MESSAGE Given to General Thomas S. Cummings at time of transmission by Professor S.F.B. Morse, New York University, Wednesday, January 24, 1838.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit a copy of a dispatch from Governor Cumming to the Secretary of State, dated at Great Salt Lake City on the 2d of May and received at the Department of State on yesterday.