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are sent, with any requests, observations, or information by which 



we may benefit them, or they us. 



WILLIAM MACTAYISH, 

 JOHN SCHULTZ, 



Secretaries. 

 The Smithsonian Institution. 



Washington, D. C, March 27, 1862. 



Sir: In compliance with your suggestion, I beg to set before you a 

 few facts respecting Liberia College, in the republic of Liberia, 

 West Africa. 



1. The college is the offspring of the benevolence of citizens of 

 Massachusetts who, in 1850, organized themselves into an association 

 for educational purposes in Liberia, with the title of "Trustees of 

 Donation for Education in Liberia," and an act of incorporation was 

 obtained the same year from the legislature of Massachusetts. 



2. Their sympathy and exertions have been so generously seconded 

 that the trustees have been enabled to erect a capacious and substan- 

 tial building on the heights of Monserrada, in the city of Monrovia, 

 the capital of the republic. The college building is three stories in 

 height, with piazzas surrounding it; with dormitories capable of ac- 

 commodating between thirty and forty students, apartments for two 

 professors and their families, lecture and dining rooms, chapel, <fec. 

 This building, the material of which is brick, cost nigh $30,000, and 

 is now finished. The college building has been presented, as a gift, 

 to the republic of Liberia, for a national institution, and is to be gov- 

 erned by a body of Liberian trustees, nominated by the President of 

 the republic, and elected by the senate. 



3. Besides the above expenditure, that is for the building, the 

 "Trustees of Donations," <fcc., have, under their own control, at 

 interest, an endowment of about $30,000, and a sum of about $40,000 

 has been left in legacies, for the purposes of Liberian education, and 

 is under the control of other colonization societies, which will, 

 without doubt, be ultimately appropriated to the ends of the Liberia 

 College. A further sum of $50, 000 is promised for the Liberia College 

 by the several members of an eminent family in New York, in lieu of 

 a. like sum left by their father on his decease, for the college, but 

 which was lost by a legal decision. 



4. Liberal donations of minerals and large gifts of books have been 

 made to the college, both by distinguished individuals in this country 

 and by Harvard and Yale Colleges. 



A taculty has already been elected; two of its professors inaugura- 

 ted; and the college has already, this year, commenced operations. 



The undersigned, authorized by the American trustees for the pur- 

 pose, respectfully requests the addition of the publications of the 

 Smithsonian Institution to the collections already made for the Liberia 

 College. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



ALEX. CRUMMELL. 

 Prof. Henry. 



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