1 86 Memorial of George Brown Goode. 



enaowment for a National Institute; and we are only withheld from doing so by con- 

 siderations growing out of the present financial condition of the Government. But 

 that which we ask is so entirely within the means of Congress, and the urgency of 

 its application to preserve what has been accumulated, with so much labor and 

 expense, is so great, that we can not but hope the enlightened and intelligent mem- 

 bers of Congress will distinguish the present session by the necessary appropriation 

 of funds to an object so truly national and so truly republican.' 



Ei/iPHAi,ET NoTT, President Utiion College, Schenectady. 



Benjamin F. Butler, New York. 



A. H. Everett, President Jefferson College, Louisiana. 



James Tallmadge, President University of New York, and 

 President American Instittcte, New York. 



John W. Draper, Professor Chemistry, University of New York. 



W. W. Mather, Professor Natural Sciences, Ohio University, 

 Athens, Ohio. 



L. R. Williams, Professor Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, 

 Jefferson College. 



C. Gill, Professor Mathematics, St. Paul's College, Flushing, 

 New York. 



John W. Dunbar, M. Y)., Professor, University 3fary land. 



W. A. Norton, Professor Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 

 Delawaj'e College, Easton, Pennsylvania. 



John W. Yeomans, President Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. 



John W. Locke, Professor Chemistry, Medical College, Ohio. 



Henry R. Schoolcraft, Delegate New York Historical Society. 



W. R. Abbott, Presideiit Georgetown Library Association. 



Grafton Tyler, M. D., Georgetown, District of Columbia. 



Richard S. McCulloh, Professor Mathematics and Natural 

 Philosophy , Jefferson College, Maryland. 



John Elgar, Montgomery County, Maryland 



Francis J. Grund, Philadelphia. 



A. D. Chaloner, M. D., Philadelphia. 



S. C. Donaldson, Baltimore, Maryland. 



James Curley, Professor, Georgetown College. 



Alexis Caswell, Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island. 



James p. Espy. 



Edward A. Cook, New York. 



A. TalcoTT, Connecticut. 



Wm. Strickland, Philadelphia. 



Benjamin Hallowell, Maryland. 



Hector Humphreys, President St. John's College, Annapolis, 

 Maryland. 



George Tucker, Professot, University of Virginia. 



James Prentiss, Nezu York. 



Richard Peters, Philadelphia. 



R. M. Patterson, Philadelphia. 



Samuel Hazard, Philadelphia. 



Elias lyOOMis, Professor, Western Reserve College, Ohio. 



Charles D. Cleveland, Philadelphia. 



Samuel F. B. Morse, New York. 



Richard Rush, Philadelphia. 



Edward Hitchcock, Professor, Amherst College, Massachusetts. 

 Washington, D. C, April, 1S44. 



'Proceedings of the National Institute, 3d Bull., p. 386. 



