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orological observations of the Smithsonian Institution, and for which an equivalent 

 advantage has been received. 



J. A. PEAECE, -) 



JOS. G. TOTTEN", [ Executive Committee. 



A. D. BACHE, J 



Communications and a memorial from Mr. Blodget to the Board 

 were then read, and ordered to lie on the table. 



The report of the Executive Committee was then adopted unan- 

 imously. 



It being stated to the Board by Mr. Choate, on behalf of Mr. C. 

 C. Jewett that he did not design, for reasons stated by him, to ask 

 the action of the Regents at their present meeting on his memorial 

 of the 3d July last, communicated to the Board through the Secre- 

 tar}', Mr. Mason moved that the said paper be returned by the Sec- 

 retary to Mr. Jewett. 



On motion the memorial to the Board was then read. 



Mr. Choate then requested permission in behalf of Mr. Jewett to 

 withdraw the memorial ; which was granted. 



The Secretary then stated to the Board that he had deemed it his 

 duty since its last session to remove Mr. Charles C. Jewett from the 

 office of assistant to the Secretary. He deeply regretted the neces- 

 sity which he had been under to exercise this authority, declared to 

 be vested in him by the Board, and for the present he rested his 

 reasons for the act on the character of a paper, submitted by Mr. 

 Jewett to the Select Committee on the distribution of the income, 

 and upon the opinion in regard to that paper expressed by the com- 

 mittee to which it was submitted. 



Mr. Pearce offered the following: ; 



The Secretary having stated to the Board that since the last meeting of the Eegents 

 in 1854, he had removed Mr. Jewett, under the authority declared to be vested in him 

 by the resolution of July 8, 1854. 



Resolved, That while the Board regret the necessity of Mr. Jewett's removal, they 

 approve of tlie act of the Secretary. 



Resolved, That this approval by the Board is not deemed by them to be essential to 

 the validity of the act of the Secretary in so removing Mr. Jewett. 



The Board then adjourned to meet on Monday, January 15th, at 

 10 o'clock. 



January 15, 1855. 



The Board of Regents met this day at 10 o'clock. 



Present, the Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Ber- 

 rien, Douglas, Ilawley, Mason, Pearce, Rush, Towers, and Totten. 



The Chancellor took the chair, and the minutes of the last meet- 

 ing were read and approved. 



