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but these have in all cases been refused. The use of the room has, 

 however, on several occasions been given to the faculty of Columbian 

 College, and also for the meetings of the Teachers' Association of the 

 District of Columbia. The organization of this association took place 

 in the Smithsonian building in 1850, and its meetings have been regu- 

 larly held in the lecture-room from that time to the present. It is 

 believed that the spirit of the will of Smithson is properly consulted in 

 giving encouragement and rendering facilities to these meetings. The 

 association has been kept up with much spirit, and I am sure that much 

 good has resulted from the organization. It has served to cherish a 

 teeling of hai'mony among the teachers, and to awaken a spirit of im- 

 provement relative to education and general krfowledge. 



The following is a list of the titles of lectures given before the Insti- 

 tution during the last session of Congress, with the names of the gen- 

 tlemen by whom they were delivered: 



A course of six lectures on History as a science, and a single one on 

 Poetry, by Dr. Samuel H. Cox, of Brooklyn, New York. 



Two lectures on Induction and Association, by Dr. John Ludlow,, 

 Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. 



A course of five lectures on Entomology, and one on the Alps, by 

 Rev. Dr. John G. Morris, of Baltimore, Maryland. 



Two lectures on the History and the Forms of the English Language^ 

 by Professor W. C. Fowler, of Amherst, Massachusetts. 



One lecture on the Architecture of the Middle Ages, by Dr. A. H. 

 Vinton, of Boston. 



Two lectures by Professor S. S. Haldeman, of Columbia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, on the Mechanism of Speech, and its bearing upon the natural 

 history of the human race. 



Two lectures on Geology, by Dx. Benjamin Sillimaa, sr., of Yale 

 College, New Haven. 



JOSEPH HENRY, 

 Secretavy of the Smithsonian lustitulvm^ 



