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sent being obtained in due form, the Secretary is hereby instructed to cause the said 

 ground so selected to be set out by proper metes and bounds. 

 All which is submitted by 



G. M. DALLAS, Chairman. 

 WM. J. HOUGH. 

 EOBERT DALE OWEST. 

 JOS. G. TOTTEN. 

 W. W. SEATON. 

 Washington, November 30, 1846. 



The committee unanimously selected, out of thirteen plans, 

 that were submitted to them by some of the principal architects 

 throughout the country, two by Mr. James Renwick, jr., of the 

 city of New York, the architect of Grace Church, the Church of 

 the Puritans, Calvary Church, and other structures, in and near 

 New York ; and they recommended to the Board for adoption one 

 of these, being a design in the later Norman, or, as it may, with 

 more strict propriety, be called, the Lombard style, as it prevailed 

 in Germany, Normandy, and in Southern Europe, in the twelfth 

 century. The design comprises a centre building, with two wings, 

 connected with the main building by low ranges and a cloister. 

 The entire front is 421 feet, and the extreme depth in the centre, 

 including the carriage porch, 153 feet. The height of the principal 

 tower is 145 feet, and that of the main building, to the summit of 

 the battlement, 58 feet. The design includes all the accommoda- 

 tions demanded by the charter, to wit: a museum, 200 feet by 50 ; 

 a library, 90 feet by 50; a gallery of art, in the form of a T, 125 

 feet long ; two lecture rooms, one of which is capable of contain- 

 ing from 800 to 1,000 persons, and the other is connected with the 

 chemical laboratory ; a committee room for the Board of Regents ; 

 a Secretary's room; a room for the effects of Mr. Smithson; a jan- 

 itor's room, &c. 



The contracts are not yet made ; but the building committee 

 hope to complete the structure, and to fit up and furnish the same, 

 not only without encroachment on the capital of the institution, 

 which by the act organizing the institution is expressly forbidden, 

 but so as to leave a considerable portion of the amount specially 

 set apart by that act for building unexpended. 



The material for the exterior of the building has not yet been 

 selected. The Board has authorized the publication, by the build- 

 ing committee, of a small volume, which will give to the public the 

 design of the building, and all important particulars regarding 

 materials, &c. 



The report and letters having been read were placed upon file. 



The resolution accompanying the report was then taken up for 

 consideration, and pending the question on the adoption thereof. 



