Sb BOARD OF REGENTS. 



" that it is the deliberate opinion of the two boards that the proposed change would 

 not comport with the interests of the city." 



This vote, your committee think, shuts out all prospect of carrying out the plan 

 contemplated in the proposed bill ; and for that reason, though after reflection has 

 but confirmed their conviction of the propriety and utility of that plan, they have 

 abandoned it, and have ceased to urge through Congress the passage of the bill in 

 question. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



GEO. EVANS. 



WM. J. HOUGH. 



ROBT. DALE OWEN. 



The following resolution was offered by Mr. Seaton, read, con- 

 sidered, and agreed to, viz : 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee be authorized to procure a seal for the 

 institution, to comprehend the medallion head of Smithson, surrounded by the words 

 " Smithsonian Institution." 



Mr. Owen offered the following resolution ; which was adopted : 



Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized to receive from the Secretary of the 

 Treasury the Treasury notes obtained under a previous resolution, and to deposit the 

 same for safe keeping, unindorsed, with the consent of the Secretary of the Senate in 

 the constitutional treasury of the Senate. 



The Board adjourned until Saturday next, the 27th instant, at 10 

 o'clock, a. m. 



February 27, 1847. 



The Secretary reported that, in pursuance of the direction of the 

 Board, he had written to the Treasury Department requesting the 

 Treasury notes mentioned in the resolution of the Board at the 

 last meeting, and had been informed that they could not be fur- 

 nished at the present time for want of printed forms, but that they 

 would be kept in the Treasury Department for the present, subject 

 to the order of the Board. 



The Secretary placed before the Board a number of letters, 

 which were laid on the table, viz., one from Mr. Bartlett, of New 

 York, offering for publication an account of the recent progress of 

 ethnology, which might serve as the first of the series of the con- 

 templated reports on that subject: another from Mr. Allen, of New 

 York, on the importance of attention to the subject of ventilation ; 

 another with three sectional drawings of the geology of important 

 lines in our country from the direction of Ohio. 



On motion of Mr. Owen — 



Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized to cause to be instituted a series of ex- 

 periments to determine the economical value of the different building materials used 

 in the United States. 



Mr. Hough gave notice of a proposition which he intended to 

 move for the reception and safe keeping of Mr. Catlin's collection 

 of Indian portraits and memorials. 



Mr. Hough also laid before the Board a request from Mr. Henry 



