NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

Members who have memoirs which they wish to publish in the fourth volume of the Academy, are requested to send them to the President, Prof. O. C. Marsh, before December 1st, 1886.

In order to avoid delays in printing, the manuscript of the memoir should be complete; and if illustrations are needed, the drawings should be furnished, and in such a form that an accurate estimate of the cost can be made.

The date of reading should be given with each memoir.

A. HALL,

Home Secretary.

November 18, 1886.

Washington,D.C.,March 27th,1888.

Dear Professor Marsh:

I learn, informally, that you have appointed me, together with Professor Bell, to verify the securities in the hands of the Treasurer, but I want to say, while thanking you for remembering me, that I expect to be very specially occupied during all the time of the Academy's session--so much so, that even to find the two or three hours time requisite for this would be difficult.

I will ask you, then, if you will kindly designate some other person for the duty on this occasion.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

President, National Academy
of Sciences,

New Haven, Conn.

P.S. Since writing this, I get yours of the 24th, and will try to do what I can on the Committee of Arrangements.

Washington,D.C.,June 27th,1889.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

My dear Sir:

I beg leave to inclose a memoir on "Energy and Vision", read before the National Academy of Sciences April 19th, 1888, and to request that it may receive publication in due course, in the memoirs of the Academy.

Washington,D.C.,

April 7, 1890.

Dear Professor Marsh:

Immediately on receipt of your first letter, I wrote to the State Department inclosing it and asking that the medal be sent back by my special messenger; and the answer was returned that it was "all right" and would be attended to. No word having been received, I was preparing to write again when your telegram arrived. In reply to letters and telephone this morning, the State Department now says that it never had any medal. I hope their official letter which I am awaiting will explain the misunderstanding. I only desire that you shall be aware that there has been no neglect on my part.

Wednesday is the day fixed for such things, and I am extremely sorry to hear that the medal is not to be on hand. I shall send you a copy of the official letter.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

New Haven, Conn.

Washington,D.C.,April 25,1890.

Dear Professor Marsh:

The Draper medal arrives this morning from
the Department of State, with the enclosed letter to you. I charge
myself with seeing that Professor Rowland gets the medal.

Professor O.C.Marsh,

New Haven, Conn.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Washington, U.S.A.

April 11, 1893.

My dear Professor Marsh:-

I have received from the Department of State the parcel described in the enclosed letter, and have deposited it in the safe of the Institution, where it awaits your order.

Please let me hear from you in regard to it, at your convenience.

Very sincerely yours,

Secretary.

Professor O.C. Marsh,

President, Nat'l Academy of Sciences,

New Haven, Conn.

(Enclosure.)

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Washington, U.S.A.

March 28, 1894.

Dear Professor Marsh:

As the Academy meets in the Museum, whose immediate charge I have delegated to Mr. Goode, (an Academician) I think that he had perhaps better be the Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements; or if for any reason you desire to have me be so, pro forma, it should be understood that Mr. Goode is willing to accept the practical

charge.

I expect to have a long paper
on the infra-red spectrum, but I don't
think I can contribute one on flying.

Very truly yours,

Professor O.C.Marsh,

President, National Academy

Of Sciences,

New Haven, Conn.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Washington.U.S.A.

March 31, 1894.

Dear Professor Hall:

I have told Professor Marsh that
Mr. Goode, who has the immediate charge
of the Museum, is the proper person to be
Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements.

If Professor Marsh still wants me to
occupy the nominal position of Chairman,
I can only do so with this understanding
on your part and on that of Mr. Goode.

S

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

WASHINGTON

S.P. LANGLEY,
SECRETARY.

October 20, 1896

Dear Professor Marsh:

I am obliged by your letter of the
nineteenth about Professor Hyatt, which
will receive my very best consideration.

February 14, 1898.

Dear Sir:

I beg to transmit herewith a copy of a letter received from Mr. Horace Montford containing a proposition for the erection in the United States of a replica of his monument of Darwin, of which a photograph is also enclosed. I lay this matter before you and several other distinguished scientific men in this country, at his request, suggesting that you address Mr. Montford directly if you see fit.

Professor O.C.Marsh,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Copy.

London, England.
8, Winders Road,
Battersea, S.W.

20th September 1897.

Dear Sir:

I am taking the liberty of sending you a photograph of my new Statue of Darwin, recently erected in Shrewsbury, his native place.

It has been suggested to me that American men of Science might be desirous of erecting a replica of the work in the States, and I now convey the suggestion to you, with the assurance that I should be very pleased to co-operate in any movement in that direction. I had the great advantage of the assistance of Mr. Francis Darwin and other members of the Family in the execution of the work, which has further received the commendation of such immediate friends of Darwin's as Sir Joseph Hooker, Lord Farrer, Mr. Francis Galton, and many others.

I send you also a report of the unveiling ceremony in case you should be interested, and a copy of Knowledge containing an alternative photograph of the Statue. Perhaps you will do me the favour to consider the practicability of the suggestion; and in any case I feel sure you will pardon my addressing you, as representing a great scientific institution, on a subject of interest to men of

science every where. It is not my intention to make the suggestion elsewhere in the States, convinced that in writing you I am taking the best course open to me. I therefore throw the project even more on your personal interest in my subject than on the well known sympathy of the American people with all advanced conceptions, whether in Science or Art.

Renewing the assurance of my hearty co-operation, I am,

dear sir,

To

Dr.S.P.Lansley,

The Smithsonian Institution.