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No. 4. 



Proceedings of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Jrmi 

 the date of their last annual report to the 21 th December, 1847. 



WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1847. 



This being the day fixed, by resohition of September 9, 1846 for tli^ 

 regular meeting of the Board of Regents, the board convened at the room 

 of the Vice President of the United States, in the Capitol 



There appeared George M. Dallas, the Chancellor, and the following 

 Regents: A. D. Bache, Sidney Breese, Gideon Hawley, Henry W m. 

 hard, Robert Dale Owen, William W. Seaton, and Joseph G Totten 



A quorum being present, the board proceeded to business, the Chan- 

 cellor in the chair. 



Mr. Owen from the Building Committee, presented a report, together 

 wita a complete copy of the journal of the committee. 

 Laid on the table. 



FRIDAY, December 10, 1847. 



The board met pursuant to adjournment. 



Present, in addition to those in attendance at the last meeting Lewis 

 Cass and J. A. Pearce. 



The Secretary made a report relative to the transactions of the past year 

 the acceptance of memoirs, the purchase of apparatus, die., and including 

 a programme of organization. °' 



SATURDAY, December 11, 1847. 



Mr. Owen, from the Executive Committee, made a report relative to a 

 plan of finance and of general appropriation of funds up to the 19th of 

 March, 1852, or until the building shall be completed. 

 On motion of Mr Hawley, 



Resolved, That the report of the Building Committee, the report of the 

 Secretary, and the report of the Executive Committee, be inserted at lar^^e 

 in the journal of the board. * 



(See documents 1, 2, 5, and 6.) 



MONDAY, December 13, 1847. 



On motion of Mr. Owen, 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee cause to be printed, in the 

 same form as the report on organization, one thousand copies of the ad- 

 dress delivered by the Chancellor on occasion of laying the corner-stone 

 of the institution, and that the Secretary cause to be laid on the desk of 

 each member of the Senate and of the House of Representatives two 

 copies of the same, as soon as it shall be printed. 

 On motion of Mr. Bache, 



Resolved, That so much of the programme presented to the Board of 

 Regents by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in his recent re- 

 port, as is contained in sections Nos. 1 and 2 of said programme, be pro- 



