LETTERS ON PROGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 



elds for whose culture particular institutions have been 

 stablished; yet no ungenerous rivalry need spring from 

 iris cause. Its earliest enterprise happens to have bee 

 ipon ground first occupied by our own association ; and 

 ic beautiful manner in which the pioneer labors of t 

 ociety have been illustrated, verified, and extended, by the 

 laborate and expensive publication of recent investigations, 

 in nowhere afford more sincere gratification, 

 mithsonian Institution is destined to occupy a posit 

 lat no other does fill or can fill ; its labors are for the coin- 

 ion benefit of our country and mankind; and institutions 

 f a more limited character should (each in its sphere) 

 isposed to render heartily such co-operation as is appro- 

 riate to the purposes of their respective foundations. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



For the committee : 



At a meeting of the council of the American Antiqua- 

 ian Society, January 31, 1849, the foregoing report having 

 een read and accpted, it was 



Voted, That a copy be transmitted to the Secretary ot 

 he Smithsonian Institution. 



Attest SAM L -^ HAVEN ' 



Recording Secretary pro tempore. 



From Henry Smith. 



MARIETTA COLLEGE, 

 MARIETTA, OHIO, February 1, 1849. 



Highly approving the principles and plan set forth in the 

 < Programme of Organization of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 ion," it will give both myself and my colleagues great 

 .leasure to co-operate wit h the conductors of the Institution 

 n any way in our power, in accomplishing the benevolent 

 and important designs which it has in view. 



From B. Manly. 



UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, 

 TUSCALOOSA, ALA., February 5, 1849. 



The Programme of the Smithsonian Institution we have 

 examined, and find nothing to suggest, save this, that the 

 longitude of places, where occultations and lunar culmina- 

 tions are regularly observed, may be determined in<lepeiid- 

 eu y of solSr and lunar tables, it is desirable that these 

 observations be statedly published. We have thought that 



