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It would be incumbent on the head of this department to maintain cor- 
respondence with Geographical Societies, with explorers, and with map 
publishers, all of which could be done only by a geographer. Moreo- 
graphical publications which are at once procurable. The 2,000 Ad- 
miralty charts, the 1,400 French charts, the English, Irish, French, 
‘erman, Prussian, &c. surveys, the principal atlases, the English, 
French, Russian, Spanish, American, and other volumes of explora- 
and then the requisite appropriation wou ; 2, 
heeded for administration, and for the purchase of the special publica- 
tons of the year, A languishing and feeble beginning is peculiarly to 
be deprecated, and a large part of the materials now publis ed can 
better be procured and made available at once than by delaying through 
a long term of years, The proposed collection is needed now, an 
every year that is lost will add to the difficulty of completing the por- 
tion relating to our early history. 
In concluding this memorial, we would respectfully state that the pro- 
now advocated is one which can scarcely fail to commend itself to 
all enlightened minds. Acting as we now do in the name and in be- 
ial an Association embracing a large p ; f 
Hvators of science, we esteem it fortunate that the interests of this As- 
Sociation, of Congress, and of the entire nation, are so harmonious and 
