s, and to be named on parts, so that persons the parts relating to it ress for partial distriliterary and scientific -rate price.

h may be embraced in

LASS.

comparative philology,

orld, penal reform, &c.

E ARTS.

bjects of general interest. t of valuable memoirs es prepared under the ering premiums for the

mitted to a commission tion.

ons may be obtained of nowledge mentioned in

including these objects in the plan
the income into two equal parts.
2. One part to be appropriated
by means of publications and res
before given. The other part to b
a library and a collection of objects
3. These two plans are not incor
4. To carry out the plan before d
consisting, first, of a complete coll
ceedings of all the learned societie
important current periodical publi
in preparing the periodical report
5. The Institution should make
cbjects to illustrate and verify its
6. Also, a collection of instrum
experimental science.

7. With reference to the collec
tioned above, catalogues of all th
States should be procured, in ord
chased may be such as are not to
8. Also, catalogues of memoirs.
should be collected for rendering
graphical knowledge, whence the
work which he may require.

9. It is believed that the collec
by donation as rapidly as the inco
vision for their reception, and, th
to purchase articles of this kind.
10. Attempts should be made t
of the most celebrated articles of

11. The arts may be encourage
pense, for the exhibition of the
Similar societies.

12. A small appropriation sho
antiquities, such as those of the
13. For the present, or until
des the Secretary, no permanen
ne, to act as librarian.

The amount of the Smithsonian beques
United States is.....

est on the same to July 1, 1846, (dev
ing)..

Annual income from the bequest

and a museum; and the Board of Regents, the plan of organization, resolved to divide al parts.

opriated to increase and diffuse knowledge and researches, agreeably to the scheme part to be appropriated to the formation of of objects of nature and of art.

not incompatible one with another.

before described, a library will be required, plete collection of the transactions and proI societies in the world; second, of the more _cal publications, and other works necessary al reports.

ld make special collections, particularly of erify its own publications.

instruments of research in all branches of

he collection of books, other than those menof all the different libraries in the United 1, in order that the valuable books first pure not to be found in the United States.

memoirs, and of books and other materials, endering the Institution a centre of bibliohence the student may be directed to any ire.

he collections in natural history will increase the income of the Institution can make pro, and, therefore, it will seldom be necessary is kind.

e made to procure for the gallery of art casts ticles of ancient and modern sculpture. ncouraged by providing a room, free of exof the objects of the Art-Union and other

tion should annually be made for models of of the remains of ancient temples, &c. or until the building is fully completed, beermanent assistant will be required, except

oted provisionally, has n. The only material solutions, adopted Jan

the Board of Regents, qual division of the ine museum and library, is hereby, repealed. riations shall be appors and operations of the gment of the Regents, to its intrinsic impore law.

To the Board of Regents:

GENTLEMEN: I have the honor
df another session of your honorab
dition and transactions of the S
Tear 1863.

The general operations of the Ins
year that the several annual re
ach other; the usual order will, th
munication, with only such variation
ear may require.

It will be seen by the report of th
iances of the Institution are in as f
of public affairs would authorize us
unt of money originally derived fi
sal in the treasury of the United Sta
Ent., paid semi-annually, and yieldin
fre thousand dollars of an extra fu
Indiana, at five per cent. interest, a
$3,750. Third. Fifty-three thousa
me fund are in bonds of the State of
dose of Tennessee, and five hundred in
thing has been derived since the comm
balance of upwards of $32,000 is now
of the Institution.

The unsettled accounts at the close of
fousand dollars.

From this statement it appears that th
building, accumulating a large library
plying the principal museums of the
atural history, and publishing a series of
tributed to all first-class libraries abroad
bone, has upwards of one hundred tho
the money received from the original
the stocks of Virginia and Tennessee

honor to present, at the commencement honorable board, the annual report of the of the Smithsonian Institution during the

of the Institution are so uniform from year annual reports can differ but little from r will, therefore, be observed in this comvariations as the special incidents of the

port of the Executive Committee that the are in as favorable a condition as the state thorize us to expect. First. The whole y derived from the bequest of Smithson is United States, bearing interest at six per and yielding $30,910. Second. Seventyan extra fund are in bonds of the State t. interest, also paid semi-annually, yield-three thousand five hundred dollars of the the State of Virginia, twelve thousand in ve hundred in those of Georgia, from which ince the commencement of the war. Fourth. 32,000 is now in the hands of the treasurer

at the close of the year do not exceed two

appears that the Institution, after erecting a large library and an extensive museum, museums of the world with specimens of shing a series of volumes which have been s libraries abroad, and still more extensively one hundred thousand dollars in addition From the original bequest. In addition to ia and Tennessee are quoted at about half

al observatory and various Dr. Henry Draper, of New

account has been given of a ervations made from 1840 to delphia, by Professor Bache.