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Every table, both in the laboratoiy and in the working laboratory, should 

 be furnished with a blast pipe, proceeding either from a large bellows in the 

 basement, or a small belloM'^s fixed under the table, or a condensing 

 syringe. 



If, in the course of the erection of the Smithsonian laboratory, I can be 

 of any service in furnishing further details, I shall do so with pleasure, i^ 

 written to on the subject; and to avoid misapprehension, I may add, with- 

 out any charge to the institution. 



I regret that my occupation as geologist of Wisconsin is likely to take 

 me to so great a distance from your city, that I shall have little chance to 

 aid by personal supervision, as otherwise I should have been happy to 

 do. 



Respectfully submitted, by 



DAVID DALE OWEN. 



To the Building Committee 



of the iSmiihsoniaji histitution. 



On motion, the above communication was referred to the architect of 

 the institution. 



Mr. Renwick, the architect, appeared before the committee, and stated 

 that it was probable that plates of Grace church, and of Trinity, could be 

 procured, if he (the architect) were authorized, by resolution of the com- 

 mittee, to make application for the same. 



On motion of Mr. Owen, the following preamble and resolution were 

 adopted : 



Whereas it has been represented to this committee that some members 

 of the vestry of Trinity church, New York, have liberally expressed their 

 willingness to furnish to the Smithsonian Institution a plate on steel or 

 copper, containing a perspective view of Trinity church, to be printed in 

 the forthcoming volume on Public Architecture, about to be published by 

 this committee: Therefore, 



Resolved, That Mr. James Renwick, architect of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, be and he is hereby authorized, on behalf of the said institution, 

 to state to the said vestry that if they decide to furnish said plate, it will be 

 accompanied in the said volume with a description of Trinity church, 

 as exhibiting the best example in the United States of the style of archi- 

 tecture in wliich it is erected; and that the building committee, if thereto 

 required by the above vestry, will furnish to them, at any time, as many 

 impressions from the said plate as they may desire, at the cost of paper 

 and printing. 



And, on motion, the following additional preamble and resolution were 

 adopted : 



Whereas it has been represented to this committee that some members 

 of the vestry of Grace church, New York, have liberally expressed their 

 willingness to furnish to the Smithsonian Institution a plate on steel, 

 containing a perspective view of Grace church, to be printed in the forth- 

 coming volume on Public Architecture, about to be published by this com- 

 mittee: Therefore, 



Resolved, That Mr. James Renwick, architect of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, be and he is hereby authorized, on behalf of the said institution, 

 to state to the said vestry that if they decide to furnish said plate, it will 

 be accompanied in the said volume with a description of Grace church, as 



