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save time, tbe committee bad already examined all the vouchers and 

 accounts of the Institution and of the National Museum, with the ex- 

 ception of eleven, which had been j>aid since the first of January, and 

 was prepared to make a partial report, and that a full report would be 

 made at the next meeting. He accordingly presented a statement of 

 the receipts and expenditures, of the accounts examined, and a history 

 of the funds, reserving until the next meeting the remainder of the 

 report. 



The Secretary gave an account of the method of keeping the accounts, 

 drawing checks, &c., and showed tbe necessity of making up the annual 

 statements of receipts and expenditures to include the semi-annual in- 

 terest due on the 1st of January, but which this year had not been 

 received from the Treasury Department until the 16th of January. 



Tbe Secretary also presented, for the information of tbe new mem- 

 bers, a general account of tbe operations of the Institution, and the 

 plans which had been adopted to carry out the will of Smithsou " to in- 

 crease and diliuse knowledge among men." 



The Board then adjourned to meet on Wednesday, 2Gth January, at 

 7 o'clock. 



Washington, D. C, January 26, 1876. 



A meeting of the Board of Eegents was held this' day, at 7 o'clock 

 p. m., in the Regent's room of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Present, Chief Justice Waite, Chancellor of the Institution ; Hon. T. 

 W. Ferry, acting Vice-President of the United States ; Hon. H. Hamlin, 

 Hon. A. A. Sargent, Hon. H. Clymer, Hon. B. H. Hill, Hon. Peter Parker, 

 Hon. George Bancroft, Professor Asa Gray, Professor Henry Copp6e, 

 and the Secretary, Professor Henry. 



The minutes of tbe last meeting were read and approved. 



Excuses for non-attendance were presented from Hon. J. W. Steven- 

 son, Hon. G. W. McCrary, and Professor J. D. Dana. 



Dr. Parker, from the special committee to prepare resolutions on the 

 death of tbe late Vice-President, Hon. Henry Wilson, jjresented tbe fol- 

 lowing report and resolutions, which, be stated, had the approval of all 

 the members of the committee : 



Since the last annual meeting of tbe Board of Regents of tbe Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States, 

 and an honored member of tbe Regency, having departed this life, tbe 

 Board deem it suitable that a just tribute to bis memory and worth bo 

 entered upon the records of the Institution : Therefore, 



Resolved, That among tbe distinguished men of tbe first century of 

 our national existence who have been prominent for patriotism, practi- 

 cal wisdom, statemanship and high moral and Christian character, im- 

 partial history will assign Henry Wilson a distinguished rank ; and as 

 a representative man of the class of " self-made men'^ to which the ver- 

 dict of mankind assigns exalted positions, the late Vice-President of 



