LETTERS ON PROGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 989 



fields for whose culture particular institutions have been 

 established ; yet no ungenerous rivalry need spring from 

 this cause. Its earliest enterprise happens to have been 

 upon ground first occupied by our own association ; and 

 the beautiful manner in which the pioneer labors of this 

 society have been illustrated, verified, and extended, by the 

 elaborate and expensive publication of recent investigations, 

 can nowhere aflbrd more sincere gratification, liut the 

 Smithsonian Institution is destined to occupy a position 

 that no other does fill or can fill ; its labors are for the com- 

 mon benefit of our country' and mankind; and institutions 

 of a more limited character should (each in its sphere) be 

 disposed to render heartily such co-operation as is appro- 

 priate to the purposes of their respective foundations. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



For the committee : 



Sam'l F. Haven, Chairman. 



At a meeting of the council of the American Antiqua- 

 rian Society, January 31, 1849, the foregoing report having 

 been read and accpted, it was — 



Voted, That a copy be transmitted to the Secretary ot 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Attest : Sam'l F. Haven, 



Recording Secretary pro tempore. 



From Henry Smith. 



Marietta College, 

 Marietta, Ouio, February 1, 1849. 

 Highly approving the principles and plan set forth in the 

 " Programme of Organization of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion," it will give both myself and my colleagues great 

 pleasure to co-operate with the conductors of the Institution 

 iu an}' wa}' in our power, in accomplishing the benevolent 

 and important designs which it has in view. 



From B. 3Ianly. 



University of Alabama, 

 Tuscaloosa, Ala., February 5, 1849. 

 The Programme of the Smithsonian Institution we have 

 examined, and find nothing to suggest, save this, that the 

 longitude of places, where occultations and lunar culmina- 

 tions are regularly observed, may be determined independ- 

 ently of solar and lunar tables, it is desirable that these 

 observations be statedly published. We have thought that 



