THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. 
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1841.] 
Will you be so obliging as to visit the rooms, take some survey of the articles, 
and signify to me what arrangement, in your opinion, may properly be made. 
Yours, with respect, DANIEL WEBSTER. 
Col. J. J. Abert, 
H. L. Ellsworth, Esq., 
Peter Force, Esq. 
In compliance with the wish expressed by Mr. Webster in the foregoing letter, 
the Committee made the examination, and reported fully thereon on the 24th June ; 
and no objection having presented itself, proper arrangements were entered into, in 
concert with the Superintendent of the Patent Office, and the collections of the 
National Institution have been transferred to the splendid hall of the new Patent 
Office. 
Whereupon the Secretary of State addressed the following communication to the 
Committee : 
Department of State, Washington , August 9th, 1841. 
Gentlemen: I have received and read your communication of the 24th of June, 
respecting the transfer of the collections of the National Institution, and cheer¬ 
fully approve of the arrangements which you have entered into, with the consent of 
Mr. Ellsworth, by which the whole collection has been placed in the upper rooms 
of the Patent Office. So long as this custody of your collection does not interfere 
with any uses to which the Patent Office is destined by law, it will give me pleasure 
to allow its continuance. 
I congratulate the members of the Institution on its flourishing condition and 
prospects. They have accomplished much within a very short period. If their efforts 
be continued with the same zeal and success which have been hitherto displayed, 
the Institution may be expected soon to enjoy the distinction of having elevated the 
scientific and literary character of the country. 
I beg you, gentlemen, to assure the Society that I feel a real interest in its 
praiseworthy cause, and will do any thing in my power to promote it. 
I am, gentlemen, with regard, your obedient servant, 
DANIEL WEBSTER. 
Col. Abert, 
Peter Force, 
Committee, tyc. 
Letters were read : —- 
From Dr. G. H. Muller, Secretary of the Society Diligentia of 
the Hague. 
From Professor Renne Jillet, Secretary of the Institution Poeda- 
gogique Central of St. Petersburg!!. 
From Narciso P. Colomer, Secretary of the Liceo Artistico y 
Literario, of Madrid. 
From W. A. Grahame, Secretary of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, 
Londonc 
