PROPOSED APPLICATIONS OF SMITHSOU'S BEQUEST. 941 



honor on the office, not requiring to borrow distinction 



fr Your committee will not withhold their opinion, that 

 upon the choice of this single officer more probably ; than 

 on any one other act of the board, will depend the future 

 ood name and success and usefulness of the Smithsonian 



A ririilar view, your committee believe, has been taken 

 of this matter by the principal scientific societies through i- 

 out the world. Newton disdained not to answer at much 

 length, the friendly and able criticisms on some ot his the- 

 ories addressed to him by Oldenburg, first Secretary of the 

 London Royal Society; and the name of Arago, Secretary 

 of the Academy of Sciences, of Paris, is known and hon- 

 ored wherever science extends her sway. 



All which is respectfully WWlg^ ^ QwEN) 



Chairman. 



The following resolutions, appended to the report of the 

 committee and" recommended for adoption, were, after de- 

 bate, passed by the board : 



and important inventions in the arts. 



Besides the above resolutions, originally reported by the 

 Committee on Organization, the following additional resolu- 

 Sns submitted by a member of the Committee on Orgam- 

 7ation as a compromise between two great conflicting 

 opinTo'ns^were adopted by the committee, and passed by 

 the board : 



