082 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



January 27, 1871 — Senaie. 



Mr. H. Hamlin offered resolution: 



Resolved, etc., That Gen. William T. Sherman be, and he is hereby, appointed a 

 member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution in the place of Gen. 

 Richard Delafield, resigned. 



Adopted. 

 January 30, 1871 — House. 



On motion of Mr. L. P. Poland the House took up and passed the 

 joint resolution appointing William T. Sherman a Regent of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in the place of Richard Delafield, resigned, 

 February 2, 1871. 



Resolved^ etc., That General William T. Sherman be, and he is 

 hereby appointed a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithson- 

 ian Institution, in the place of Richard Delafield, resigned. 



(Stat., XVI, 593.) 



REPORT OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



March 30, 1870— Senaie. 



Annual report for 1869 presented, and ordered to be printed. 



Mr. L. Trumbull offered a resolution to have 6,000 copies printed. 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 

 March 31, 1870— Senate. 



Mr. H. B. Anthony, from Committee on Printing, reported con- 

 current resolution to print 13,000 copies of the report for 1869. 



Passed. 

 April 20, 1870— House. 



The resolution by the Senate to print 13,000 additional copies of the 

 report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1869 was objected to. 

 June 7, 1870— House. 



Mr. Joel F. Asper offered a resolution that 2,000 copies of the 

 reports of the Smithsonian Institution for 1866, 1867, and 1868 be 

 printed from the stereotype plates. 



A letter from Professor Henry was read: 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C, May 28, 1870. 

 My Dear Sir: I have the honor, with, your permission, to address you in relation 

 to extra copies of the reports of this Institution, for which the demand has of late 

 years become so great that the number ordered by the House for its members has not 

 been sufficient to supply more than half their constituents who desire them. During 

 the last three years, and especially during the year just passed, so numerous have 

 been the demands upon us for copies of reports that our stock is entirely exhausted. 

 The report gives not only an account of the operations of the Institution, but also, in 

 an appendix, a series of translations which exhibit the progress of science in foreign 

 countries. A copy is sent to each of the foreign correspondents of the establishment; 

 to colleges, public libraries, and learned societies publishing transactions; to meteoro- 

 logical observers of the Institution; to contributors of the material to the library or 

 museum, and to persons engaged in teaching or in special scientific research, so far 

 as the number of copies furnished to the Institution will allow. 



