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Congress shall be compleled, other institutions, and even individuals, 

 are ready to avail themselves of the scheme for procuring their cata- 

 logues. Its general adoption — the crowning point of all our efforts — 

 seems, therefore, as sure as the completion of the first work. 



It is manifest that appropriations will every year be necessary from 

 the Smithsonian fund for the procuring of type, apparatus, and fixtures, 

 as well as for filling any intervals that may occur in the continuity ot 

 the work. But it seems now quite certain that the system will ere 

 long grow up into a large and self-supporting establishment, regulated 

 by the combined libraries of the country. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



C. C. JEWETT. 

 To Joseph Henry, LL.D., 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



