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We have shown that Mr. Morse himself has acknowledged the value 

 of the discoveries of Prof. Henry to his electric telegraph; that his 

 associate and scientific assistant, Dr. Grale, has distinctly affirmed that 

 these discoveries were applied to his telegraph, and that previous to 

 such application it was impossible for Mr. Morse to operate his instru- 

 ment at a distance; that Prof. Henry's experiments were witnessed 

 by Prof, Hall and others in 1832, and that these experiments showed 

 the possibility of transmitting to a distance a force capable of pro- 

 ducing mechanical effects adequate to making telegraphic signals ; 

 that Mr. Henry's deposition of 1849, which evidently furnished the 

 motive for Mr. Morse's attack upon him, is strictly correct in all the 

 historical details, and that, so far as it relates to Mr. Henry's own 

 claim as a discoverer, is within what he might have claimed with en- 

 tire justice; that he gave the deposition reluctantly, and in no spirit 

 of hostility to Mr. Morse ; that on that and other occasions he fully 

 admitted the merit of Mr. Morse as an inventor ; and that Mr. Morse's 

 patent was extended through the influence of the favorable opinion 

 expressed by Professor Henry. 



Your committee come unhesitatingly to the conclusion that Mr. 

 Morse has failed to substantiate any one ot the charges he has made 

 against Prof. Plenry, although the burden of proof lay upon him ; and 

 that all the evidence, including the unbiased admissions of Mr. Morse 

 himself, is on the other side. Mr. Morse's charges not only remain 

 unproved but they are positively disproved. 



Your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolu- 

 tions : 



Resolved, That Professor Morse has not succeeded in refuting the 

 statements of Professor Henry in the deposition given by the latter in 

 1849; that he has not proved any one of the accusations against Prof. 

 Henry made in the article in Shaffner's Telegraph Companion in 1855, 

 and that he has not disproved any one of his own admissions in re- 

 gard to Prof. Henry's discoveries in electro-magnetism, and their im- 

 portance to his own invention of the electro-magnetic telegraph. 



Resolved, That there is nothing in Professor Morse's article that di- 

 minishes, in the least, the confidence of this Board in the integrity of 

 Prof. Henry, or in the value of those great discoveries which have 

 placed his name among those of the most distinguished cultivators of 

 science, and have done much to exalt the scientific reputation of the 

 country. 



Resolved, That this report, with the resolutions, be recorded in the 

 Proceedings of the Board of Kegents of the Institution. 



