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29th Congress, [SENATE.] F 211 1 





SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



PiEPOKT 



FROM 



THE BOAPtD OF EE&EITS, 



SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS, 



0/ the operations, expejiditures, and condition of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



March 3, 1847. 



Read, and ordered to be printed. 



To the Se?iate and House of Representatives of the United States: 



In obedience to the act of Congress " to establish the Smithsonian. 

 Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge .among men," 

 the Board of Regents submit to Congress a report of the "operations, 

 expenditures, and condition of the institution." 



On the day prescribed by the act creating the institution, the Regents 

 assembled in the city of Washington, and proceeded to the execution of 

 the duties assigned to them. For an account of their organization, aad 

 the measures thereafter adopted by the Board of Regents to give effect to 

 the provisions of the act of their creation, and to the intentions of the 

 Testator, they submit the following, (being all the material portions of the 

 journal of their proceedings,) as the best and fullest exposition of their 

 transactions, and of the present condition of the institution. 



• G. M. DALLAS, Chancellor, 



Joseph Henry, Secretary. 



