190 Mejuorial of George Bi'oivii Goode. 



annual appropriation for the necessary purposes of the Association, and the continu- 

 ance of the indulgence hitherto granted, of the use of convenient rooms for preserv- 

 ing the property and holding the ordinary meetings. 



Annexed to this memorial are various documents, of which the following is a list: 



1. Charter of incorporation. 



2. Constitution and by-laws. 



3. Abstract of proceedings, comprising the contributions, donations, and deposits 

 made to the cabinet and library of the Institution since its foundation, with the 

 names of the contributors, donors, and depositors. 



4. I/ist of officers, and honorary, resident, paying corresponding, and correspond- 

 ing members, and of the societies, institutions, etc., at home and abroad, in corre- 

 spondence with the National Institute." 



Peter Force, Vice-President, 



Francis Markoe, Jr., Corresponding Secretary, 



John K. Townsend, Recording Secretary, 



George W. Riggs, Jr., Treasurer, 



John C. Spencer, 



John Nei,son, 



WH.WAM WiLKINS, 

 C. A. WiCKUFFE, 

 Directors, ex officio, on the part of the Government, 

 Levi Woodbury, 

 R. J. Walker, 

 J. J. Abert, 

 Joseph G. Totten, 

 A. O. Dayton, 

 M. F. Maury, 

 Directors on the part of the National Institute. 

 Washington City, March 18, 1S44. 



NOTE F. 



MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS. 



The following appeal was made to Congress at its late session (first session of 

 Twenty-ninth Congress) in favor of the National Institute, and was presented to the 

 Senate by the Hon. Lewis Cass and to the House of Representatives by the Hon. 

 John Quincy Adams: 



To the Senate afid House of Representatives in Congress assembled: 



The undersigned would respectfully petition that the memorials^ heretofore pre- 

 sented to your honorable bodies in behalf of the National Institute may again be 

 taken into consideration and the prayers therein be granted. 



In addition to the reasons before set forth in their favor, the undersigned would 

 beg leave to state what they most sincerely deplore — the increasing difficulties of the 

 Institute. It is becoming entirely impracticable, by mere private contributions and 

 taxes, to pay the large incidental expenses attendant on the collection and preserva- 

 tion of so much valuable property connected with the advancement of science, litera- 

 ture, and the arts. The Institute asks and has asked nothing for the private emolu- 



' Proceedings of the National Institute, 3d Bull., p. 383. 



^ Copies of these memorials will be found at pp. 383 and 386 of the Third Bulletin 

 of the Proceedings of the National Institute, which accompanies this memorial. 



