600 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



The " Establisbment," by the name of the "Smithsonian Institution." 



Franklin Pierce, President of the United States. 



, Vice President of the United States. 



William L. Marcy, Secretary of State. 



James Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War. 



James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy. 



James Campbell, Postmaster General. 



Caleb Cushing, Attorney General. 



Kogj;r B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States. 



Charles Mason, Commissioner of Patents. 



John T. Towers, Mayor of the city of Washington. 



honorary members. 



Egbert Hare, Washington Irving, Benjamin Silliman, Paekeb 

 Cleaveland. 



board of regents. 



-, Vice President of the United States. 



Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States. 

 John T. Towers, Mayor of the city of Washington. 

 James A. Pearce, member of the Senate of the United States. 

 James M. Mason, member of the Senate of the United States. 

 Stephen A. Douglas, member of the Senate of the United States. 

 William H. English, member of the House of Kepresentatives. 

 David Stuart, member of the House of Representatives. 

 James Meacham, member of the House of Representatives. 



• , citizen of Massachusetts. 



Gideon Hawley, citizen of New York. 



J. Macpherson Berrien, citizen of Georgia. 



Richard Rush, citizen of Pennsylvania. 



Alexander D. Bache, member of the National Institute, Washington. 



Joseph G. Totten, member of the National Institute, Washington. 



The active government of the Institution is in the hands 

 of the following officers and committees : 



Franklin Pierce, ex-officio Presiding Oificer of the Institution. 

 Roger B. Taney, Chancellor of the Institution. 

 Joseph Henry', Secretary of the Institution. 



, Assistant Secretary, in charge of Library. 



Spencer F. Baird, Assistant Secretary, in charge of the Museum. 



Alexander D. Bache, "j 



James A. Pearce, [• Executive Committee. 



Joseph G. Totten, 

 Richard Uush, ~l 



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Building Committee. 



Wm. H. English, 



Joseph Henry, 



W. W. Seaton, Treasurer. 



The committee feel it their dut}' to submit a few remarks 

 in relation to this organization. 



It appears by the evidence that so much of it as is called 

 the "Establishment" has never performed any part what- 

 ever in the administration of the Institution. It is obvious 

 that those regents who reside at a great distance from Wash- 

 ington can have but little to do with its management. Those 



