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  [Senate 
  

  

  last 
  year, 
  may 
  be 
  expected 
  during 
  the 
  present, 
  as 
  its 
  welcome 
  

   visitors. 
  An 
  appropriation 
  of 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  fifty 
  dollars 
  for 
  

   the 
  year 
  1851, 
  is 
  the 
  sole 
  amount 
  now 
  at 
  the 
  disposal 
  of 
  the 
  Re- 
  

   gents. 
  This 
  should 
  be 
  increased 
  to 
  at 
  least 
  one 
  thousand 
  dollars 
  

   for 
  the 
  present 
  and 
  the 
  next 
  year. 
  Again, 
  every 
  available 
  foot 
  

   of 
  ground 
  for 
  the 
  proper 
  disposition 
  of 
  the 
  collection 
  is 
  occupied 
  

   and 
  the 
  Board 
  have 
  hence 
  received, 
  with 
  great 
  pleasure, 
  an 
  offi- 
  

   cial 
  notice 
  that 
  the 
  Commissioners 
  of 
  the 
  Land 
  Office 
  and 
  the 
  

   New- 
  York 
  State 
  Agricultural 
  Society 
  will 
  present 
  to 
  the 
  Legisla- 
  

   ture, 
  plans 
  for 
  increasing 
  the 
  building 
  now 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  best 
  

   interests 
  of 
  science 
  and 
  the 
  arts, 
  in 
  a 
  manner 
  commensurate 
  with 
  

   the 
  dignity 
  and 
  the 
  high 
  destinies 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  an 
  unpleasant, 
  but 
  a 
  necessary 
  duty 
  to 
  add, 
  that 
  on 
  an 
  

   application 
  from 
  the 
  local 
  committee 
  of 
  New- 
  York, 
  appointed 
  

   to 
  forward 
  objects 
  of 
  interest, 
  both 
  natural 
  and 
  artificial, 
  to 
  the 
  

   approaching 
  exhibition 
  in 
  London, 
  some 
  doubts 
  were 
  thrown 
  out 
  

   whether 
  the 
  State 
  possessed 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  fossil 
  remains 
  in 
  its 
  

   own 
  right. 
  This 
  matter 
  will, 
  however, 
  be 
  brought 
  before 
  the 
  

   Legislature 
  by 
  another 
  commission, 
  and 
  the 
  Regents, 
  therefore, 
  

   content 
  themselves 
  witli 
  the 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  circumstance, 
  and, 
  

   also, 
  that 
  Professor 
  Hall 
  has 
  promised 
  to 
  furnish 
  a 
  catalogue 
  of 
  

   the 
  fossils, 
  now 
  the 
  property 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  des- 
  

   cribed 
  in 
  the 
  1st 
  and 
  2nd 
  volumes 
  of 
  his 
  Paleontology. 
  

  

  This, 
  at 
  whatever 
  time 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  received, 
  will 
  be 
  transmitted 
  

   to 
  the 
  Legislature. 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  been 
  further 
  suggested, 
  and 
  the 
  idea 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  gain- 
  

   ing 
  favor, 
  that 
  the 
  specimens 
  of 
  Indian 
  manufactures, 
  now 
  in 
  

   the 
  collection, 
  and 
  those 
  which 
  are 
  presently 
  expected, 
  should 
  

   under 
  the 
  care 
  of 
  a 
  watchful 
  guardian, 
  be 
  dispatched 
  to 
  this 
  Ex- 
  

   hibition, 
  so 
  remarkable, 
  even 
  if 
  its 
  least 
  sanguine 
  auguries 
  are 
  

   accomplished. 
  But 
  the 
  Regents 
  have 
  not 
  the 
  means, 
  nor 
  

   the 
  power, 
  to 
  further 
  such 
  a 
  plan, 
  and 
  it 
  will 
  remain 
  with 
  the 
  

   Legislature, 
  alone, 
  to 
  sanction 
  it 
  with 
  their 
  necessary 
  assent. 
  

  

  By 
  order 
  of 
  the 
  Regents, 
  

  

  G. 
  Y. 
  LANSING, 
  Chancellor. 
  

  

  T. 
  RoMEYN 
  Beck, 
  Secretary. 
  

  

  