XII CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Digest or the act of Congress establishing the Smithsonian 



Institution. By Prof. Henry 758 



Extracts from the Memoirs of John Quinct Adams, giving 

 accounts of meetings of committees appointed by Congress 

 on the Smithson bequest, proceedings in Congress, views of 



public men, &c 7G3 



Account of the United States Treasury with the Smithsok 



FUND - 803 



Arkansas 804 



Michigan 810 



Illinois 814 



Ohio 820 



The United States 824, 834 



Proposed applications of Smithson's bequest 837 



By Thomas Cooper . 838 



Francis Wayland 839 



John Quincy Adams 842, 846 



Richard Eush 849 



Stephen Chapin 856 



Horatio Hubbell 860 



Southern Literary Messenger, 1838— 864, 870, 890 



Peter S. Duponceau 895 



Joel R. Poinsett 899 



"William Darlington 901 



William Barlow 910 



Report of the Organization Committee of the Board of Re- 

 gents of the Smithsonian Institution. (Messrs. Owen, Hil- 



liard, Bache, Choate, and Pennybacker) 930 



Programme of Organization of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. By Prof. Joseph Henry 944 



Letters relative to the Programme of Organization pro- 

 posed BY Prof. Henry 961 



By T. Romeyn Beck, Albany Academy, N. Y : 961 



Benjamin Silliman, Yale College, Ct. 962 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass. 964 



New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N. J 970 



