Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1847

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Summary

  • Present: George M. Dallas, William W. Seaton, George Evans, William J. Hough, Robert Dale Owen, Henry W. Hilliard, Alexander Dallas Bache, Richard Rush. Also Present: Joseph Henry. The members not present were Roger B. Taney, Lewis Cass, Sidney Breese, Joseph G. Totten, Rufus Choate, Gideon Hawley, William C. Preston.
  • The secretary reported that he had written to the Treasury Department requesting the Treasury notes mentioned in the board's resolution the previous meeting, that he had been informed that they couldn't be furnished at the present time "for want of printed forms," and that they would be kept in the Treasury Department for the present. The secretary placed before the board a letter from Mr. Bartlett offering for publication an account of the recent progress in ethnology, which might serve as the first in a series on the topic; a letter from Mr. Allen on the importance of the subject of ventilation, and a letter with "three sectional drawings of the geology...in our country from the direction of Ohio." The board resolved that the Secretary be authorized to "cause to be instituted a series of experiments to determine the economical value" of different building materials used in the United States.
  • Mr. Hough gave notice of a proposition which he intended to move for the "reception and safe keeping of Mr. Catlin's" collection on Indians and presented the board with a request from Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft regarding a paper on ethnology which he desired to prepare. The board then adjourned to meet the following Monday at 10:00 AM.

Subject

  • Seaton, William Winston 1785-1866
  • Bache, A. D (Alexander Dallas) 1806-1867
  • Dallas, George Mifflin 1792-1864
  • Hough, William Jervis 1795-1869
  • Hilliard, Henry W (Henry Washington) 1808-1892
  • Owen, Robert Dale 1801-1877
  • Rush, Richard 1780-1859
  • Evans, George 1797-1867
  • Catlin, George 1796-1872
  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • Allen, Mr
  • Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1793-1864
  • Bartlett, Mr
  • Cass, Lewis
  • Totten, Joseph Gilbert 1788-1864
  • Hawley, Gideon 1785-1870
  • Breese, Sidney 1800-1878
  • Taney, Roger Brooke 1777-1864
  • Preston, William C. 1794-1860
  • Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859
  • Board of Regents
  • United States Dept. of the Treasury
  • Regents Smithsonian Institution

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 1847/02/27 Regents Minutes
  • Board of Regents - Minutes of Meetings, 1846-

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 1, Board of Regents Vol. 1 (Bound volume)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1879
  • February 27, 1847

Topic

  • Geology
  • Building materials
  • Ventilation
  • Ethnology
  • Finance, Public

Form/Genre

Board of Regents

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page numbers: 38-39

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