FORTIETH CONGRESS, 1867-69. 711 



January 22, 1869. — Mr. Wilson offered the following 

 resolution; which was adopted : 



Resolved, ^-c, That Louis Agassiz, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, be, and 

 he is hereby, reappointed a Kegent of the Smithsonian Institution to fill 

 the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of his present term. 



February 13, 1869. — Annual report for 1868, presented, 

 and ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Fessenden offered a resolution to have additional 

 copies printed. 



IJarch 1, 1869. — Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on 

 Printing, reported the following resolution ; which was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That 5,000 copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 for the year 1868, be printed ; 3,000 for the use of the Senate, and 2,000 for 

 the use of the institution ; and that said report be stereotyped : Provided, 

 That the aggregate number of pages of said report shall not exceed 450, 

 without illustrations, except those furnished by the institution. 



House of Eepresentatives, January 7, 1868. 



The Speaker announced the appointment, as Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, of Mr. Jas. A. Garfield of Ohio, 

 Mr. L. P. Poland of Vermont, and Mr. J. V. L. Pruyn, of 

 New York. 



On motion of Mr. Garfield the Senate resolution of 

 January 7th, to appoint Messrs. Woolsey, Astor, McLean 

 and Parker, as regents, was adopted. 



February 27, 1868. — The civil appropriation bill being 

 under consideration, the clerk read : 



Smithsonian Institution: "For the preservation of the collections of the 

 exploring and surveying expeditions of the Government, $1,000." 



Mr. Poland. I move to amend the paragraph just read 

 by striking out "§1,000" and inserting " $6,000." I appre- 

 hend that the Committee on Appropriations had not, proba- 

 bly, looked into the history of this annual appropriation to 

 the Smithsonian Institution for taking care of these collec- 

 tions of the Government when they concluded to report this 

 sum. These collections were kept in the Patent Office build- 

 ing up to 1857, and were then much smaller than they are 

 now. An annual appropriation of $4,000 for the purpose 

 of taking care of these collections was made from 1842 to 

 1857. In 1857 the room occupied for that purpose in the 

 Patent Office building was needed for other purposes, for 

 models, &c., and these collections were then removed to the 

 Smithsonian building, where they have since been kept. 

 An annual appropriation of $4,000 for their preservation 

 was made from 1857 to last year, when the sum was in- 



