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models, &c. ; the said appropriation to commence on the first day 

 of January next. 



The following resolution was then read, and agreed to, viz :* 



[No. 7.] Resolved, That it is expedient to include, ultimately, 

 in the plan of the Institution, popular lectures on useful subjects — 

 as on agriculture and its latest improvements ; on the productive 

 arts of life ; on the sciences, and the aid they bring to labor; on 

 common school instruction, including the proper construction of 

 school rooms, the most improved apparatus for teaching, and the 

 most judicious management, moral and intellectual, of children 

 in common schools ; also, if suitable lecturers be found, on history, 

 natural and civil, including the physical history of the various ra- 

 ces of men, and the gradual advance of each to its present state 

 of civilization ; on political economy, in its practical connexion 

 with the every day business of life ; and generally, on any de- 

 partment of useful knowledge not strictly professional. 



The following resolutions, Nos. 8, 9, 10, and 14, were read, and 

 upon suggestions that it was desirable that the Secretary elect 

 should be consulted before their adoption, they were postponed un- 

 til the next meeting of the Board of Regents : 



[No 8.] Resolved further, That if the funds of the Institution 

 permit, it is desirable that such lectures should be delivered, not 

 only at Washington, but gradually and successively, at different 

 points in all the States of the Union, either by permanent profes- 

 sors, or temporary lecturers, engaged on behalf of the Institution. 



[No. 9.] Resolved, That if the funds of the Institution permit, 

 there may be properly included in the plan, the publication, peri- 

 odical or otherwise, of popular tracts on the above subjects. 



[No. 10.] Resolved, That as one of the most effectual means of 

 increasing knowledge among men, it shall be made a part of the 

 duty of one or more of the officers, who may be engaged by the 

 Institution, to institute original researches in the branch of science 

 to which he may be devoted ; and that it shall be the duty of the 

 Secretary, when such researches eventuate successfully, to com- 



*See page 29, where this resolution is considered as postponed. 



