286 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
- The Secretary of the Institution, (Prof. Joseph Henry,) has been 
directed to continue his researches and to report his results ; to prepare a 
number of the Contributions for publication, and after communication with 
eminent scientific and literary men, to fix upon methods for executing the 
other plans ‘ for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” 
The organization also embraces the plan of setting apart certain eve- 
nings, for the purpose of enabling artists and inventors to exhibit and 
explain their instruments or works of art in the halls of the Institution, 
as in the Polytechnic Institution in London, to such as may attend the 
irées. 
ées, 
~ The plans of Mr. James Renwick, Jr., of New York, for the build- 
ing, ‘were adopted with modifications, and it was agreed that: the 
tors of the will of Mr. Smithson, and are bound by every obligation faith- 
fully to discharge their trust, ‘the increase and diffusionof knowle ge 
General Post O at Washington cost over half a million of dollars, 
the Patent Office $750,000, and the Treasury Department still more. 
benefit of the whole American people only, but for “ mankind.” The 
wise councils of those who have so far succeeded in harmonizing con- 
flicting views, as to accomplish what we have already sketched, will 
have the hearty approval and codperation of all those who desire the 
permanent prosperity of the Institution. 
8. Footprints and Indian Sculpture, (communicated by Rev. E. H: 
Davis, of Chillicothe.) —During a late excursion along the Ohio valley 
for the purpose. of examining some mural remains, our attention was 
directed by several persons to two sculptured rocks upon Guiandotte 
river, as something very remarkable. ‘Taking nothing for granted re- 
wed by hearsay, we determined to visit them; so we p edu 
the river about eighteen miles from its mouth, where we found the 
two rocks in question just below the falls. 
