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On motion, it was 



Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to wait upon the Pre- 

 sident of the United States, and to invite him to become the Patron 

 of the National Institution. 



Resolved, That the Committee appointed to correspond with the 

 Departments of the Government, be desired to call upon the new 

 Members of the Cabinet for the purpose of obtaining their consent 

 to act as Directors of the National Institution. 



Resolved, That the Hon. John Quincy Adams be invited to de- 

 liver the next Anniversary Discourse before the National Institution. 



Resolved, That a Committee be appointed for the purpose of draft- 

 ing a Memorial to Congress, praying for a Charter of Incorporation 

 for the National Institution, and to submit the same at the next stated 

 meeting, or at a special meeting of the Institution ; to be signed, be- 

 fore presentation, by the Directors and Officers, in behalf of the mem- 

 bers of the National Institution. 



Resolved, That a list of the officers and men of the Exploring 

 Squadron be made and preserved in the National Institution. 



A communication from L. D. Teackle, on Political Economy, 

 Monetary matters, fee, was referred to a Committee. 



Staied Meeting, November 8, 1841. 



Present, twenty-four Members. 



Peter Force, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following donations were received. 



For the Cabinet. 



Collection of Plants of Missouri, with a descriptive letter. — Fro7n 



George Engelmann, M. D. 



Living Owl, (Strix virginiana.) — From Jonathan P. Felt, Spott- 



sylvania County, Virginia. 

 Capsule of Cream-Nut Tree, with Nuts. — Froin the same. 



