THE GENESIS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 3T5 



tlie National lusstitute. We cordially unite with the resident members of the Insti- 

 tute in asking an approprintiou in its behalf from Congress. Our only fear is that 

 in thus requesting aid for the keeping of what in fact is the property of the Govern- 

 ment, we may be considered as asking a boon far below that which the country calls 

 for, and that we ought to urge upon the National Legislature a liVieral and plenteous 

 endowment for a National Institute ; and we are only withheld from doing so by 

 considerations growing out of the present financial condition of the Government. 

 But that which we ask is so entirely within the means of Congress, and the urgency 

 of its application to preserve what has been accumulated, with so much labor and 

 expense, is so great, that we can not but hope the enlightened and intelligent mem- 

 hevs of Congress will distinguish the present session by the necessary appropriation 

 of funds to an object so truly national and so truly republican. 



Eliphalet NOTTj Fresidviit Union Collef/e, Sehenectadf/. 



Benjamin F. Butler, Xew York. 



A. H. Everett, President Jefferson Collef/e, Louisiana. 



James TaLlmabge, President University of New Yorlf and Presi- 

 dent American Institute, New York. 



John W. Draper, Professor Chemistry, University of New York. 



W. W. Mather. Professor Natural Sciences, Ohio University, 

 Athens, Ohio. 



L. K. Williams, Professor Natiinil I'hilosoptni and Chemistry, 

 Jefferson Collcije. 



C. Gill, Professor Mathematics, St. Paul's Colleye, Fhishiny, N. Y. 



John W. Dunbar, M. D., Professor, University Maryland. 



W. A. Norton, Professor Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 

 Delaware Collcf/e, Easfon, Pa. 



John W. Yeomans, President Lafayette Colleye, Pa. 



John W. Locke, Professor Chemistry, Medical College, Ohio. 



Henry E. SchoolcraPt, Delegate Netv York Historical Society. 



W. R. Abbott, President Georgetoivn Library Association. 



Grafton Tyler, M. D., Georgetown, D. C. 



Richard S. McCulloh, Professor Mathematics and Natural 

 Philosophy, Jeff'erson College, Maryland. 



John Elgar, Montgomery County, Md. 



Francis J. Grund, Philadrlphia. 



A. D. Chaloner, M. D., Philadelphia. 



S. C. Donaldson, Baltimore, Md. 



James Curley, Professor, Georgetoivn College. 



Alexis Caswell, Professor, Brown University, Rhode Island. 



James P. Espy. 



Edward A. Cook, Netv Yo7-k. 



A. Talcott, Connecticut. 



Wm. Strickland, Philadeljjhiu. 



Ben.iamin Hallowbll, Maryland. 



Hector Humphreys, President St. .Tohn's College, Annapolis, Md. 



George Tucker, Professor, University of I'irginia. 



James Prentiss, New York. 



Richard Peters, Philadelphia. 



R. M. Patterson, Philadelphia. 



Samuel Hazard, Philadelphia. 



Elias Loomis, Professor, Western Reserve College, Ohio. 



Charles D. Cleveland, Philadelphia. 



Samuel F. B. Morse, New York. 



Richard Rush, Philadelphia. 



Edward Hitchcock, Professor, Amherst College, Massachusetts. 

 Washington, D. C, April, 1844. -^ 

 [Proc. Nat. Inst., i, 385.] 



