MEMBERS EX OFFICIO OF THE INSTITUTION. 



JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States. 



JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, Vice President of the United States. 



LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State. 



HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury. 



JOHN B. FLOYD, Secretary of War. 



ISAAC TOUCEY, Secretary of the Navy. 



JOSEPH HOLT, Postmaster General. 



J. S. BLACK, Attorney General. 



ROGER B. TANEY, Chief Justice of the United States. 



WILLIAM D. BISHOP, Commissioner of Patents. 



JAMES G. BEREET, Mayor of the City of Washington. 



HONORARY MEMBERS. 



WASHINGTON IRVING, of New York. 

 BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, of Connecticut. 

 A. B. LONGSTREET, of Mississippi. 

 JACOB THOMPSON, Secretary of the Interior. 



