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tional Institute. We cordially unite with the resident members of ttie Institute in 

 asking an appropriation in its behalf from Congress. Our only fear is that in thus 

 requesting aid for the keeping of what in fact is tho property of the Government, 

 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 liberal 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 cannot but hope the enlightened and intelli- 

 gent members of Congress will distinguish the present session by the necessary 

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



ELIPHALET NOTT, PresH Union College, Schenectady. 



BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, New York. 



A. H. EVERETT, PresH Jefferson College, Louisiana. 



JAMES TALLMADGE, President University of New York, 

 and President American Institute, New York. 



JOHN W. DRAPER, Professor Chemistry, University of 

 New York. 



W. W. MATHER, Professor Natural Sciences, Ohio Uni- 

 versity, Athens, Ohio. 



L. R. WILLIAMS, Professor Natural Philosophy, and Chem- 

 istry, Jefferson College. 



C. GILL, Professor Mathematics, St. PauVs College, Flush, 

 ing. New York. 



JOHN W. DUNBAR, M. D., Prof. University Maryland. 



W. A. NORTON, Prof. Mathematics aud Natural Philoso. 

 phy, Delaware College, Easton, Pennsylvania. 



JOHN W. YEOMANS, PresH Lafayette College, Penn. 



JOHN LOCKE, Prof. Chemistry, Medical College, Ohio. 



HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, Delegate New York Histo- 

 rical Society. 



W. R. ABBOTT, PresH Georgetown Library Association. 



GRAFTON TYLER, M. D., Georgetown, D. C. 



RICHARD S. McCULLOH, Professor Mathematics and 

 Natural Philosophy, Jefferson College, Maryland. 



JOHN ELGAR, Montgomery County, Maryland. 



FRANCIS J. GRUND, Philadelphia. 



A. D. CHALONER, M. D., Philadelphia. 



S. C. DONALDSON, Baltimore, Maryland. 



JAMES CURLEY, Professor Georgetown College. 



ALEXIS CASWELL, Professor Brown University, Rhode 

 Island. 



JAMES P. ESPY. 



EDWARD A. COOK, New York. 



A. TALCOTT, Connecticut. 



WM. STRICKLAND, Philadelphia. 



BENJAMIN HALLOWELL. Maryland. 



HECTOR HUMPHREYS, President St. John's College, 

 Annapolis, Maryland. 



GEORGE TUCKER, Professor University of Virginia. 



JAMES PRENTISS, New York. 



RICHARD PETERS, Philadelphia. 



R. M. PATTERSON, Philadelphia. 



SAMUEL HAZARD, Philadelphia. 



ELIAS LOOMIS, Prof. Western Reserve College, Ohio. 



CHARLES D. CLEVELAND, Philadelphia. 



SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, New York. 



RICHARD RUSH, Philadelphia. 



EDWARD HITCHCOCK, Prof. Amherst College, Mass. 

 WAtiitNOTON, D. C, April, 1844. 



