REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



By the organizing act approved August 10, 1846 (Revised Statutes, 

 title Lxxiii, section 5580), " The business of the Institution shall be 

 conducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named 

 the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the 

 Vice-President, the Chief- Justice of the United States [and the Gov- 

 ernor of the District of Columbia], three members of the Senate, and 

 three members of the House of Representatives, together with six 

 other persons, other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be 

 resident in the city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhab- 

 itants of some State, but no two of the same State." 



BEGENTS FOB THE YEAR 1887. 

 The Vice-President of the United States : 



John Sherman (elected President of Senate Dec. 7, 1885). 

 John J. Ingalls (elected Preuident of the Senate Feb. 26, 1887). 



The Chief-Justice of the United States: 

 MOIIRISON R. Waite. 



Term expires. 

 United States Senators : 



Samuel B. Maxey (appointed May 19, 1881) Mar. 3,1887 



Justin S. Morrill (appointed February 21, 1883) Mar. 3, 1891 



Shelby M. Cullom (appointed March 23, 1885) Mar. 3, 1889 



Randall L. Gibson vice Senator Maxey (appointed Dec. 19, 1837). Mar. 3, 1889 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



Otho R. Singleton (appointed January 12, 1886) Dec. 28, 1887 



William L. Wilson (appointed January 12, 1886) Dec. 28, 1687 



William W. Phelps (appointed January 12, 1886) Dec. 28, 1887 



Citizens of Washington : 



James C. Welling (appointed May 13, 1884) May 13, 1890 



Montgomery C. Meigs (appointed December 26, 1885) Dec. 26,1891 



Citizens of a State: 



Asa Gray, of Massachusetts (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 26, 1891 



Henry Coppke, of Pennsylvania (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 26, 1891 



Noah Porter, of Connecticut (iirst appointed in 1878) Mar. 3,1890 



James B. Angell, of Michigan (appointed January 19, 1887) Jan. 19,1893 



Morrison R. Waite, Chancellor of the Institution and President of the Board of 



Begents. 



Executive Committee of the Board of Begents. 

 James C. W^elling. Henry Coppee. Montgomery C. Meigs. 



