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visionally adopted; that the Secretary be charged with the execution of its 

 details, as far as the tunds appropriated for the several objects may permit, 

 and that he be directed to report annually to the board his progress in the 



execution of this duty. , , t . j . ^ a^^ 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee be directed to report, alter 

 consultation with the Secretary, to the Board of Regents ^^ rehnon to the 

 special appropriations desirable for the year beginning March 19, 184b, in 

 execution of parts of the programme which have been provisionally adopted. 

 Mr Owen asked to be excused from service as a member of the I^xecu- 

 tive Committee, representing to the board that the most important duties 

 of this committee would hereafter be to select among various scientihc ob- 

 jects and researches those to which appropriations should be made, arid 

 that there were gentlemen on the board, not members of the comimttee, par- 

 ticularly a Regent from Washington, better qualified than himself to make 



such selection. . „ . p, 



The motion to excuse Mr. Owen from service on the Executive Com- 

 mittee being put by the Chancellor, it was lost. r ,. x? 



Mr Totten asked to be excused from service as a member of the Exe- 

 cutive Committee, representing to the board that the time spent by him as 

 a member of another committee of the board was as much as he could 

 spare from his professional duties. , , r.. n -f ,,.oo 



The motion to excuse Mr. Totten being put by the Chancellor, it was 



Thereupon the board proceeded, by ballot, to fill the vacancy thus crea- 

 ted; and, on counting the ballots, it appeared that Mr. Bache was elected. 



The Secretary presented a list of books received m virtue of the pro- 

 vision contained in the tenth section of the act organizing the institution; 

 also, a list of books presented to the institution. 



WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1847. 



Mr. Seaton, from the Executive Committee, presented a report on the 

 state of the finances of the institution. r i ,u^ 



Mr Bache, from the Executive Committee, to whom was referred the 

 resolution of the 13th instant, relative to appropriations for the year com- 

 mencing on the 19th of March, 1848, made the following report: 



'' The committee, after consultation with the Secretary, recommend the 

 passage of the following resolution: , ,n.u ^Tv/r,..v. 



" That the appropriations for the year commencing on the jyth of Maich, 

 1848, for objects other than those provided for out of the building fund, 

 be for the present as follows: 



'' For the publication of Transactions, the sum of three thousand and tive 



hundred dollars; a cc i^i 



"For computations relative to occultations, two hundred and htty clol- 



^'Vor purchase of magnetic instruments, six hundred dollars; 



" For instruments and other expenses connected with meteorological 

 observations, one thousand dollars; . r -. ^ ■^v 



'' For arrangement of apparatus, &c., in such portion of the building 

 as shall be completed next autumn, one hundred and fifty dollars; 



"For exj^nnses of lectures, including hghting of lecture-room, live 

 hundred dollars j 



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