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efficient aid to every other literary and scientific institution, 

 without interfering with the labors of any, and you will at 

 the same time disseminate original knowledge in every 

 country on the globe. A new impulse will thus be given 

 to investigation in every department of science; and 

 learned men will know that through you they will be able 

 to make their discoveries available to their brethren through- 

 out the civilized world. Time and experience may very 

 possibly suggest modifications of your original plan, and 

 for these modifications it will be always prepared. I, how- 

 ever, know of none which I would wish to propose. 



I think you have been fortunate in commencing the series 

 with the volume on " The Ancient Monuments in the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley." It is an addition to human knowledge and 

 peculiarly adapted to the present condition of ethnological 

 inquiry. It can not fail to be well received both in this 

 country and in Europe. 



From Leonard Woods. 



BowDoiN College, 

 Brunswick, Me., December 23, 1848. 

 I am happy to take this occasion to express the great 

 satisfaction with which the gentlemen of our college faculty 

 have examined the comprehensive plan presented in the 

 Programme of Organization of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and their disposition to co-operate by every means in their 

 power in promoting the object of the Institution. 



From W. Peronneau Finley. 



College of Charleston, 

 Charleston, S. C, December 25, 1848. 

 I hardly need say that the "Programme of Organization," 

 Ac, a copy of which accompanies your letter, is, in my 

 opinion, most admirably adapted to eft'ectuate the objects 

 of the Institution. I have no suggestion to make which 

 could render the scheme adopted more perfect. 



F^om E. D. MacMaster. 



Miami University, 

 Oxford, Ohio., December 28, 1848. 

 The Programme of the Institution, which you did us the 

 honor to send, appears to us to be conceived in a liberal 



