REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



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

 title Lxxni, section 5580, "The business of the Institution shall be con- 

 ducted 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 Governor of 

 the District of Columbia], three members of the Senate, and three mem- 

 bers 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 inhabitants of some 

 State, but no two of the same State." 



REGENTS FOB THE YEAR 1884. 



Term expires. 

 The Vice-President of the United States : 



George F. Edmunds (elected President of Senate March 3, 1883) Mar. 3, 1885 



The Chief Justice of the United States : 

 Morrison R. Waite. 



United States Senators : 



Nathaniel P. Hill (from May 19, 1881 ) Mar. 3, 1885 



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



Justin S. Morrilx (appointed February 21, 1883) Mar. 3, 1885 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



Otho R. Slngleton (appointed January 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



Wm. L. Wilson (appointed January 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



Wm. W. Phelps (appointed January 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



Citizens of Washington : 



Peter Parker (first appointed in 1868) Resigned Apr., 7, 1884 



William T. Sherman (first appointed in 1871) Mar. 25, 1885 



James C. Welling May 13, 1890 



Citizens of a State : 



John Maclean, of New Jersey (first appointed in 1868) Dec. 19, 1885 



Asa Gray, of Massachusetts (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 19, 1885 



Henry Coppj&e, of Pennsylvania (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 19, 1885 



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



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



Regents. 



