1841.] THE NATIONAL INSTtTUTION. 1 '^ 1 



to render any essential service. I am sure that I shall render none wliic.h will be 

 in any degree commensurate with the interest which 1 feel in the success of the 

 Institution. 



Very respectfully, &c., ^ ^ UPSHUR. 



J. J. Abert, "^ 



A. O. Dayton, > Committee, ^-c. 



^RANCis Markoe, Jun. J 



Tlie following Resolutions were offered and adopted : 



Resolved, That Mr. Smith's communication be referred to the De'- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



Resolved, Tliat that the subject of Mr. Kallussowski's letter be 

 referred to a committee with directions to report upon it. 



Besolved, That Mr. French's paper on the English verb be refer- 

 red to a committee with directions to report upon it. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the National Institution be presented 

 to the Belgian Government, through its representative, for the Nation- 

 al Medals. 



Resolved, That a committee be appointed to examine the subject 

 of exchanges, (o propose a plan for the purpose, and to report fully 

 thereon to the Institution for its further consideration and action. 



On motion of Capt. George W. Hughes, it wa& 



Resolved, That the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, re- 

 quested oi> a former occasion to prepare a geological survey of the 

 District of Columbia, be instruct-ed to memorialize Congress, at its 

 present session, to grant a sufficient sum of money to defray the ex- 

 pense of a careful and minute trigonometrical and geological Sur- 

 vey of the District, to be made under the direction of the National 

 Institution'. 



On motion of John S. Skinner, it was 



Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer with the gert- 

 tlemen who may be in attendance at Washington, under a public 

 notice, for the formation of a National Agricultural Society, and ex- 

 plain to them that a Department of Agriculture already exists in the 

 InstitutioT), and ta suggest that all their objects might probably Be' 

 sooner and better accomplished by unitinjg wifh the National Institu- 

 tion, these objects being believed to be identical. 

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