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THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION. 
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to render any essential service. 1 am sure that I shall render none which will he 
in any degree commensurate with tire interest which I feel in the success of the 
Institution. 
Very respectfully, &cl, 
A.- P. UPSHUR. 
J. J. Abert, 
A. O. Dayton, 
Francis Markoe, Jun. 
The following Resolutions were offered and adopted : 
Resolved , That Mr. Smith’s communication be referred to the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture. 
Resolved, That that the subject of Mr. Kallussowski’s letter be 
referred to a committee with directions to report upon it. 
Resolved, That Mr. French’s paper on the English verb be refer¬ 
red to a committee with directions to report upon it. 
Resolved, That the thanks of the National Institution be presented 
to the Belgian Government; through its representative, for the Nation¬ 
al Medals. 
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to examine the subject 
of exchanges, to propose a plan for the purpose, and to report fully 
thereon to the Institution for its further consideration and action. 
On motion of Capt. George W. Hughes, it was 
Resolved, That the Department of Geology and Mineralogy, re¬ 
quested on a former occasion to prepare a geological survey of the 
District of Columbia, be instructed to memorialize Congress, at its 
present session, to grant a sufficient sum of money to defray the ex¬ 
pense of a careful and minute trigonometrical and geological Sur¬ 
vey of the District, to be made under the direction of the National 
Institution. 
On motion of John S. Skinner, it was 
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to confer with the gem* 
tlemen who may be in attendance at Washington, under a public 
notice, for the formation of a National Agricultural Society, and'ex¬ 
plain to them that a Department of Agriculture already exists in the 
Institution, and to suggest that all their objects might probably be 
sooner and better accomplished by uniting with the National Institu¬ 
tion, these objects being believed to be identical. 
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