JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS 

 OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Washington, D. C, January 17, 1S80. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Eegents of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution was held this day at 10 o'clock a. in., in the Eegents' room. 



Present, the Chancellor, Chief- Justice Waite ; Hon. Win. A. Wheeler, 

 Vice-President of the United States; Hon. H. Hamlin, Hon. E. E. With- 

 ers, Hon. N. Booth, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. Hiester Clyiner, Hon. 

 Joseph E. Johnston, Dr. John Maclean, Dr. Asa Gray, Hon. Peter Parker, 

 President Noah Porter, General Wm. T. Sherman, and the Secretary, 

 Professor Baird. 



(Dr. H. Copp6e, the only member of the Board absent, was accident- 

 ally detained on the road, and did not reach Washington until after the 

 adjournment of the Board.) 



The Secretary made the following announcements relative to the ap- 

 pointment of members of the Board of Eegents. 



The vacancy in the Board occasioned by the expiration of the term of 

 Hon. A. A. Sargent, of California had been filled on the 21st of March 

 1879, by the appointment by the President of the Senate of Hon. Newton 

 Booth, of California. 



On the 4th of April, 1879, the Speaker of the House of Eepresenta- 

 tives, Hon. S. J. Eandall, had reappointed as Eegents Hon. H. Clymer 

 of Pennsylvania and Hon. J. A. Garfield of Ohio, and had appointed 

 Hon. Joseph E. Johnston of Virginia vice Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, who 

 had declined reappointment. 



A joint resolution had passed Congress and been approved by the 

 President of the United States December 19, 1879, providing that the 

 "vacancies in the Board of Eegents of the class other than members of 

 Congress shall be filled by the reappointment of Asa Gray of Massa- 

 chusetts, Henry Coppee of Pennsylvania, John Maclean of New Jersey, 

 and Peter Parker of the city of Washington, whose terms have expired." 



The minutes of the Board of January 1G, 1879, were read, and, after 

 slight amendment, approved. 



The Secretary presented a statement of the financial condition of the 

 Institution, and stated that in order to save time this statement and all 

 the accounts of the Institution had been referred to the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



Dr. Parker, from the Executive Committee, presented and read the 

 annual report of the committee relative to the receipts and expenditures 



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