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been present, that the State stocks of North Carolina would be a 

 suitable and safe means of investment ; referred to the Executive 

 Committee. 



The Secretary presented for the examination of the Board a 

 manuscript memoir, by I. A. Lapham, relative to the mounds of 

 Wisconsin, received from the American Antiquarian Society of 

 "Worcester, and mentioned in the sixth annual report. 



The Secretary presented the case of the late Prof. C. B. Adams, 

 whose draft for one hundred and fifty dollars had been honored by 

 the institution. A letter from Thomas Bland, Esq., on the part of 

 the family of Prof. Adams, was read, offering to refund the money 

 or send to the institution a portion of the collections in natural 

 history made by Prof. Adams in his last expedition. 



The subject was referred to the Secretary, with the understand- 

 ing that the collections be accepted, and that the repayment of the 

 money be not required from the executors of Prof. Adams. 



The Secretary presented the subject of the compensation of Dr. 

 J. G. Fliigel, of Leipsic, the agent for Smithsonian exchanges in 

 Central Europe. 



The following resolution, offered by Mr. Bache, was adopted : 



Resolved, That the compensation of Dr. J. G. Fliigel, agent at Leipsic, for the 

 reception and distribution of publications on the part of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for Central Europe, be three hundred dollars per annum until otherwise ordered by 

 the Board. 



The reading of the Secretary's report was continued, including 

 an account of the operations in meteorology during the past year; 

 also including the operations relative to the library, under the care 

 of Prof. Jewett. 



An extensive collection of MS. bills, inventories, and other ac- 

 counts of business in private English families, from 1632 to 1750, 

 in fifty-four volumes, presented by Mr. J. O. Ilalliwell, was laid on 

 the table for examination ; and, on motion, the following resolution 

 was adopted : 



Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to transmit to Mr. J. O. Halliwell, of 

 London, an expression of the grateful sense entertained by the Board of Begents of 

 the munificent gift received from him, and of the honor done the institution by 

 selecting it as a place of deposit for these interesting documents. 



The operations of the stereotyping department were presented by 

 the Secretary, and a statement made of its capability of preparing 

 and printing catalogues of all the libraries in the United States. 



On motion, the following preamble and resolution were adopted : 



Whereas a plan for stereotyping catalogues by separate titles, and for preparing 

 and printing the catalogues of the various libraries in the United States in uniform 

 style, and at greatly diminished cost, as well as for forming a general catalogue of all 

 these libraries, was presented to the Smithsonian Institution and referred to two com- 



