JOURNAL OP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 471 



monthly meeting, a statement of the expenditures for the month preceding, of the 

 state of the appropriations, and of the amount required, according to the quarterly 

 estimate, for the service of the next month, and, quarterly, the estimate of the archi- 

 tect for the building, and estimates for the general purposes of the Institution, in 

 conformity with the appropriations of the Board of Begents, 



Resolved, That to meet the demands of the building, and general purposes of the 

 Institution, according to the estimate presented by the Secretary, to April 1st, a 

 requisition be drawn on the Chancellor and Secretary, for the sum of ten thousand 

 dollars, (in stock of the United States,) the proceeds to be deposited to the order of 

 the Chairman of the Executive Committee. 



A letter was laid before the committee, by the chairman, from 

 Peter Gorman, in relation to a claim for services rendered in visit- 

 ing quarries. 



On motion, the chairman was requested to require evidence from 

 Mr. Gorman, that he was promised compensation by the Building 

 Committee, in addition to his expenses which have already been 

 paid. 



On motion, the committee adjourned. 



TWENTY-THIED MEETING. 



April 6, 1849. 



The Executive Committee met this day, in the Vice-President's 

 room. 



Present, Mr. Seaton, (Chairman,) Mr. Bache, and the Secretary. 



The Secretary made the following statement, relative to transac- 

 tions, &c, viz : 



First. Professor Kceppens, late of Athens, had given in behalf of the Institution, 

 a course of four lectures, which had been attended by a large and apparently inter- 

 ested audience. On account of the difficulty of approach, at present, to the Smithso- 

 nian building, these lectures have been delivered in Carusi's saloon. 



Second. At the request of the Secretary a set of apparatus, to illustrate the princi- 

 ples of wave-motion, had been constructed, under the direction of Professor Snell, 

 (of Amherst,) the inventor ; that a part of this apparatus had arrived, and that the 

 remainder was in Boston, awaiting transportation ; also, that the thanks of the Insti- 

 tution had been presented to Professor Snell for his superintendence. 



Third. A package of thermo-electrical apparatus, with a set of galvanometers for 

 -electricity of different intensities, had been received from Paris, from the workshop 

 of Mr. Euhmkorfi*, the same having been ordered, and paid for by a remittance made 

 about two years ago. 



Fourth. A barometer and thermometer had been given in charge of Lieutenant 

 "Woodbury, of the corps of engineers, for observations at Port Kearney, on the river 

 Platte. 



Fifth. Four thermometers had been sent with suitable instructions for meteorolog- 

 ical observations to missionary stations around Lake Superior in charge of Dr. Owen. 



Sixth. The instruments for observations on the intensity of terrestial magnetism 

 had been given in charge to Colonel Emory, of the Mexican Boundary Survey, to be 

 used in accordance with the purposes for which they had been purchased. 



Seventh. It is probable that the United States Government will finally pay for these 

 instruments, and thus leave the magnetic appropriation free for the purchase of 

 another set to be used by other observers. 



Eighth. Steps had been taken to procure fifty barometers to be placed along the 

 telegraphic lines for observations on the progress of storms. 



