An attempt to obtain expressions of support for Schumacher whose astronomical research and publication were endangered by the strained political relations between Denmark and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Requests that scientific societies in the United States add their written support to that rendered by the world scientific community. Reprints such letters of support from A[lexander] von Humboldt, M. [Dominique-François-Jean] Arago, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Signed in type by Edward Everett, Benjamin Peirce, and J. Ingersoll Bowditch, members of the committee appointed to communicate the academy's position.
