SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 13 



MONDAY, November 30, 1846. 



Agreeably to their adjournment on the 9th day of September 

 last, a meeting of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution was 

 held at the room of the Vice President of the United States, in 

 the Capitol. 



George M. Dallas, the Chancellor, (and one of the Regents,) 

 and the following Regents appeared, viz : William W. Seaton, 

 Isaac S. Pennybacker, Sidney Breese, 'Robert Dale Owen, 

 William J. Hough, Henry W. Hilliard, Richard Rush, 

 Gideon Hawley, Alexander Dallas Bache, and Joseph G. 

 Totten. 



At 12 o'clock, meridian, the Chancellor took the Chair, and 

 called the Regents to order. 



The journal of proceedings of the last two days of the last ses- 

 sion were read. 



Messrs. Hough, Seaton, Totten, Rush, and the Chancellor, 

 each presented sundry letters, recommendations, dec, relative to 

 applications for the office of Secretary of the Institution ; 



Which were severally placed upon file for future consideration. 



Mr. Rush presented a letter from Miss Legare, sister of the 

 late Hugh S. Legare, asking the Regents to purchase the library 

 left by her brother ; 



Which was placed upon file for future consideration. 



The Chancellor, from the committee appointed at the last 

 session of the Board of Regents, " to obtain plans for the erection 

 of buildings," to consider as to materials, the warming and light- 

 ing the buildings, &c, made a report, accompanied by sundry let- 

 ters from Mr. Owen to Mr. Seaton, giving a detailed account of 

 the examinations made by himself, Mr. Hough, and Mr. Totten, 

 as a sub-committee, in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston ; and 

 from Mr. David Dale Owen, Professors Sillman and Fowler, in 

 relation to the selection of material for the erection of the Institu- 

 tion Building ; and, also, accompanied by the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution do 

 select and adopt, as a site for their buildings, so much of the mall, 



