JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Washington, January 12, 1887. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Eegents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution fixing the time of the annual session on the second 

 Wednesday in January of each year, the Board met this day at 10:30 

 o'clock A. M.» 



Present : The Chancellor, Chief- Justice Morkison R. Waite ; Hon. 

 John Sherman, Hon. Justin S. Morrill, Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, 

 Hon. Otho R. Singleton, Hon. William W. Phelps, Dr. Asa Gray, 

 Dr. Henry Coppee, Dr. James C. Welling, General Montgomery 

 C. Meigs, and the Secretary, Prof. Spencer F. Baird. 



Excuses for non-attendance were read from Dr. Noah Porter and 

 Hon. William L. Wilson. 



The Chancellor announced that since the last meeting of the Board 

 one of its most valued and eminent members had deceased. Rev. Dr. 

 John Maclean, of Princeton, N. J.; whereupon Dr. Welling, chair- 

 man of the Executive Committee, offered the following : 



the late dr. MACLEAN. 



I trust that without too much presumption I may venture to offer a 

 brief minute in humble tribute to the memory of our honored and la- 

 mented colleague, the late Dr. Maclean, not because I chance to hold the 

 place he lately filled with so much dignity and usefulness on your Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, but becanse it is perhaps my good fortune to have 

 known that venerable man for a longer period than has fallen to the lot 

 of any other member of this Board. And yet I do not come with any 

 words of formal eulogium. This is not the hour and this is not the 

 place in which to essay anything like an elaborate delineation of the 

 character which was expressed in the life and services of our late dis- 

 tinguished friend, a character no less remarkable for its beauty than 

 for its strength. 



The memoir of his long and useful career has already been written else- 

 where in the record of a well-spent life, dedicated to the glory of God and 

 the welfare of man. It is written in the annals of the great College, 

 whose story he has told so well that for all the sons of Princeton it must 

 remain " a possession forever," and which he was called to serve in every 



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