MEMBERS EX OFFICIO OF THE INSTITUTION. 



Franklin Pierce, President of the United States. 



William R. King, Vice-President of the United States. 



William L. Marcy, Secretary of Slate. 



James Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War. 



James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy. 



James Campbell, Postmaster- General. 



Caleb Cushing, Attorney-General. 



Roger B. Taney, Chief-Justice of the United States. 



Charles Mason, Commissioner of Patents. 



John W. Maury, Mayor of the City of Washington. 



HONORARY MEMBERS. 



Robert Hare, Benjamin Silliman, 



Washington Irving, Albert Gallatin.* 



(* Deceased.) 



