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ing. Professor Guyot is now in Washington engaged in preparing 
a set of instructions for the first class of meteorological observers. 
Mr. Rogers (Henry D.) has promised to give me a set of directions 
for observing earthquake and volcanic phenomena. With these we 
shall have a respectable beginning of the contemplated series of 
instructions. 
The course to be adopted with regard to the building is not yet 
definitely settled. We are now attempting to make such a disposition 
of our U.S. stock as will enable us to secure the present high premium, 
and on the success of this will principally depend the future operation 
with regard to the building. 
I have spoken to a number of the Trustees with regard to bringing 
you in and though nothing is certain in Washington which depends 
on the vote of individuals, I have little doubt that at the next meeting 
of the Board, which will take place within the course of next week, 
the arrangement will be made. 
I cannot speak definitely with regard to the acceptance of a 
memoir of the kind you mention; this will depend on the amount of 
additions to knowledge it contains. 
I remain your friend, 
JosepH Henry. 
On the 5th of July the Board of Regents of the Smith- 
sonian Institution met at Washington and elected Spencer 
F. Baird assistant secretary of the Institution. The news 
was immediately telegraphed to him at Carlisle by Pro- 
fessor C. C. Jewett, who followed his dispatch by the 
following letter: 
From C. C. Jewett to Spencer F. Baird. 
WASHINGTON July 5, 1850. 
My bear Sir: 
Before this reaches you, you will doubtless have learned, by the 
telegraphic despatch which I have sent, that your appointment is a 
“fixed fact.”” Prof. Henry stated to the Board this morning that 
