1 86 Memorial of George Broivn 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.' 



Eliphai^ET New, President Union College, Schenectady. 



Benjamin F. Butler, Neiv York. 



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



James TAi,r<MADGE, President University of Neiv York, and 

 President American Institute, New York. 



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



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

 Athens, Ohio. 



L. R. Wii.i,iAMS, Professor Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, 

 Jefferson College. 



C. Gii,!,, Professor JMathematics, St. Paul's College, Flushing, 

 New York. 



John W. Dunbar, M. D., Professor, University Maryland. 



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

 Delazvare College, Easton, Pennsylvania. 



John W. Yeomans, President Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. 



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



Henry R. Schooi^craft, Delegate Neiv York Historical Society. 



W. R. Abbott, President Georgetowji Library Association. 



Grafton Tyi,er, M. D., Georgetown, District of Columbia. 



Richard S. McCui,i.oh, Professor Mathematics and Natural 

 Philosophy , Jefferson College, Maryland. 



John Elgar, Montgcnnery County, Maryland 



Francis J. Grund, Philadelphia. 



A. D. CHAI.ONER, M. D., Philadelphia. 



S. C. D0NAI.DSON, Baltimore, Maryland. 



James Curley, Professor, Georgetown College. 



Alexis Caswell, Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island. 



James P. Espy. 



Edward A. Cook, Neiu York. 



A. Talcott, Connecticut. 



Wm. Strickland, Philadelphia. 



Benjamin Hallowell, Maryland. 



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

 Maryland. 



George Tucker, Professor, University of Virginia. 



James Prentiss, Nezu York. 



Richard Peters, Philadelphia. 



R. M. Patterson, Philadelphia. 



Samuel Hazard, Philadelphia. 



Elias Loomis, 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, 1844. 



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



