1136 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
or catalogue is added, and the whole is transferred to the Museum by means of a for- 
mal letter addressed to the Director and by him referred to the officers of the Museum. 
Material so transferred is unpacked, entered into the Museum catalogue, numbered 
in the Museum series, and arranged for preservation or exhibition in the Museum in 
accordance with the plans of that institution; and the principal record of the transfer, 
in which all such collections are credited to the Geological Survey, is kept by the 
accessions clerk of the Museum. 
The following officers of the Survey are honorary curators of the National Museum: 
Name. Function. Division. Museum department. 
Wee Dalliz:ts Paleontologist..| Cenozoic Division of Invertebrate | IX. Mollusks. 
Paleontology. 
C.D. Walcott ..| Paleontologist..| Paleozoic Division of Invertebrate | XII. A. Invertebrates. 
Paleontology. 
C. A. White ..-.| Paleontologist..| Meso-Cenozoic Division of Inverte- XII B. Invertebrate fossils. 
brate Paleontology. | 
XIII. A. Fossil plants. 
L. F. Ward ..... Paleontolopist..| Fosstl Plants’ 32. 755 2. 2es isso. shee ae { 
an 8 XIII. B. Recent plants, 
F. W. Clarke ...}| Chemist ........ Chemistry and Physics............-.- XIV. Minerals. 
The work of the Survey is greatly facilitated by the cooperation existing between 
it and the National Museum. 
STATUE OF ee DALE OWEN. 
March 19, 1888—House. 
Mr. A. P. Hovey introduced a joint resolution (H. 134): 
That the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the 
object of this resolution, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of 
any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the 
purpose of erecting onthe grounds or in the building of the Smithsonian Institution, 
in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, under the direction of the Regents 
of the said Smithsonian Institution, a statue of the late Robert Dale Owen, a distin- 
guished citizen and statesman of the United States, and one of the principal pro- 
moters and architects of the building of said Institution. : 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
May 11, 1888—House. 
Mr. W. A. STAHLNECKER, from the Committee on the Library, sub- 
mitted a report (H. 2091): 
James Smithson, a son of the Duke of Northumberland, England, 
on the 26th of October, 1826, by his last will and testament, bequeathed 
to the ‘‘ United States of America his property to found at Wash- 
ington City, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an estab- 
lishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” 
When the bequest was received by the United States, June, 1829, it 
amounted to a little over $500,000, and was accepted as a trust under 
an act of Congress. 
For many years this large sum was in the vaults of the United 
States or under its control, and several unsuccessful efforts were made 
in Congress to pass bills to carry the trust into execution. 
