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gress. The cost would be insignificant, and the value of the collection 

 would increase in all future time. No place is so suitable for its 

 permanent deposit as the city of Washington, and no guardianship so 

 appropriate as that of the government of the United States. 



Your committee recommend to the Board that the subject of the 

 purchase of Mr. Stanley's Indian gallery be brought respectfully to 

 the attention of Congress, as a measure eminently deserving a favor- 

 able consideration in its bearings upon the history of the aboriginal 

 tribes of America, and as a monument of deep and lasting interest to 

 the people of the United States. 



The report was accepted, and laid on the table for the present. 



The Secretary stated that Mr. Putnam having resigned the agency 

 of the Smithsonian publications in New York,[Messrs. D. Appleton & 

 Co. had been appointed his successors. 



The Secretary announced that since the last meeting of the Board 

 the death of Dr. Egbert Hare, of Philadelphia, had occurred, who 

 was one of the principal benefactors of the Institution, and its first 

 honorary member. 



Professor Bache gave an account of the life, character, and scientific 

 researches of Dr. Hare, and ofi'ered the following resolutions : 



Besolvcd, That the Kegents of the Smithsonian Institution have 

 learned with deep regret the decease of one of the earliest and most 

 venerated honorary members of the establishment, Kobert Hare, M.D., 

 of Philadelphia, late professor of chemistry in the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



liekolved, That the activity and power of mind of Dr. Hare, shown 

 through a long and successful career of physical research, the great 

 fertility of invention, the happy adaptations to matters of practical 

 life, and the successful grappling with questions of high theory in 

 physical science, have placed him among the first in his country of 

 the great contributors to knowledge, clarum et venerahile nom.en. 



Befclved, That while we deplore the loss of this great and good 

 man, who has done so much to keep alive the flame of science in our 

 country in past days, we especially mourn the generous patron of our 

 Institution, the sympathizing friend of the youth of some of us, and 

 the warm-hearted colleague of our manhood. 



Jiesolved, That we ofi'er to the bereaved family of Dr. Hare our 

 sincere condolence in the loss which they have sustained by his death. 



The resolutions were adopted. 



The report of the Secretary for 1857 was then accepted. 



