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building. Careful inquiries have been instituted to ascertain the smallest 

 sum which would be adequate to that purpose ; and the plan of a con- 

 venient structure has been made by General Meigs, the Quartermaster- 

 General United States Army. We beg leave further to represent that 

 to accomplish the purpose there would be need of an appropriation of 

 $250,000. This amount is required, not as a first installment to be fol- 

 lowed by others, but as sufficient entirely to complete the edifice. Should 

 this appropriation be made at an early day, the building could be ready 

 for the reception of articles before the next session of Congress. 



On motion of Mr. Stevenson the report of the committee was adopted, 

 and all the Regents present signed their names to the memorial,* which 

 was placed in the hands of Mr. Stevenson to be presented to the Senate, 

 and Mr. McCrary to the House of Representatives. 



Mr. Clymer offered the following resolution, which was unanimously 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That the executive committee be authorized and requested 

 to have a life-size portrait of the Secretary of the Institution painted 

 by some competent artist, which, when finished and approved by the 

 Regents, shall be preserved and kept in testimony and memory of the 

 devoted, unselfish, and renowned services of Joseph Henry in behalf of 

 the u increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." 



The Board then adjourned sine die. 



The following is the list appended to the foregoing memorial : 



List of the more important collections presented by foreign commissioners 

 to the United States Government, and talcen charge of in behalf of the 

 Rational Museum by the Smithsonian Institution. 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



Dr. Ernesto Oldkn»dorff, Commissioner. 

 Ores of metals, minerals, pottery, tiles, stuffed animals, leathers and 

 hides, nets, fishery products, samples of woods, fibers, seeds, grains, 

 specimens of silk and wool in great variety. This donation embraces 

 almost the whole of the exhibit in Agricultural Hall and a large portion 

 of that in the main building. 



AUSTRIA. 

 Dr. Francis Migerka, Commissioner. 

 Specimens of mineral wax (ozockerite) and a variety of mineral and 

 industrial products. 



BELGIUM. 



Count D'Oui.tremont, Commissioner. 



Some specimens of industrial products. 



* M. R. Waite, T. W. Ferry, H. Hamlin, J. W. Stevenson, A. A. Sargent, Heister Cly- 

 mer, B. H. Hill, G. W. McCrary, Peter Parker, Asa Gray, George Bancroft. Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



