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more liberal provision for the support of the National Museum, it may 

 begin to ask for specimens in return, and in doing so may harmoniously 

 co-operate with the Museum of Comparative Zoology by procuring speci- 

 mens for it, and in receiving from the latter others in return. 



At the request of the Board, Professor Agassiz then gave an 

 account* of his late expedition from Boston through the Straits of 

 Magellan to San Francisco, in the steamer Hassler, of the United States 

 Coast Survey, after which the Board adjourned to meet at the call of 

 the Secretary. 



Wednesday, February 13, 1875. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents was held this day, at 7 o'clock p. 

 m. Present : Chief Justice Chase, Chancellor, Hon. H. Hamlin, Hon. 

 L. Trumbull, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. L. P. Poland, Hon. Peter Parker, 

 Hon. H. D. Cooke, and the Secretary, Professor Henry. 



The Chancellor took the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



Dr. Parker presented the following report of the committee relative to 

 the Corcoran Art Gallery : 



The committee to whom was referred the subject of inquiry into the 

 character and organization of the Corcoran Art Gallery,t and the plan 

 (if any) to be adopted by the Smithsonian Institution iu co-operating 

 with that establishment and in depositing articles with it, and report 

 thereon, have to state : They learn that the Corcoran Art Gallery was 

 incorporated by act of Congress on the 24th of May, 1870, [as appears 

 from Statutes at Large, Forty-first Congress, second Session, chapter 3, 

 page 139,] and is in no way connected with the District or territorial 

 government of Washington. 



Your committee have conferred with Mr. W. W. Corcoran, and learn 

 from him his desire in relation to the art gallery bearing his name is to 

 make it one of very high order of art, and, with some exceptions which 

 he specified, he is of the opinion the specimens of the Smithsonian will 

 not come within the scope of his design. The proffer of the aid of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, through its extensive ioreign correspondents 

 and agencies, in collecting valuable works of art from abroad, will be 

 highly appreciated by Mr. Corcoran and the Directors of the Corcoran 

 Art Gallery. 



PETER PARKER, 

 W. T. SHERMAN, 



Committee. 



February 13, 1873. 



On motion of Mr. Hamlin, the following resolution was adopted : 

 Resolved, That the report of the committee be accepted, and, in view 

 of the facts stated, no further action in the premises is required, except 



*See Appendix "A" to Journal of tho Board, 

 t See Appendix " C " to Journal of tue Board. 



