
          of cataloging The proper
resolution would have
given to Mr [Iwall?] the
credit of the invention and
to the Institution the
credit of its adoption and
of the expense of carrying
it into execution. We
have expended on it
more than 10.000 dolls
and had the plan failed
the disgrace of squandering
the money would have
fallen on me or the
Institution.

I told him this
and he agreed to the
justness of the remark

        