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grounds, for the purchase of books and apparatus, for publications and 

 researches, and for all other purposes, the value of the funds at the present 

 time exceeds by a small amount that of the original appropriation of the 

 act of Congress of September, 1S46, establishing the Institution. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



G. M. DALLAS, 

 Chancelloj- of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 JOSEPH HENRY, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Listitution. 



