REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



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

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

 ducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Kegents, named the 

 Kegents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vic ^- 

 President, the Chief Justice of the United States [and the Governor ot 

 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 them of the same State." 



REGENTS FOB THE YEAR 1882. 



Term eSpires. 

 The Vice-President : 



David Davis (jpro tern.) Mar. 4, 188.3 



The Chief Justice, Morrison E. Waite. 



United States Senators : 



George F. Hoar (from Feb. 21, 1881) Mar. 4, 1883 



Nathaniel P. Hill (from May 19, 1881) Mar. 4, 1885 



Samuel B. Maxey (from May 19,1881) Mar. 4, 1887 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



Nathaniel C. Deering Dec. 2(5, 188.3 



Ezra B. Taylor Dec. 26,1883 



Samuel S. Cox Dec. 20, 1883 



Citizens of Washington : 



Peter Parker (appointed in 1868) Dec. 19, 1885 



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



Citizens of a State: 



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



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



Henry Copp^e, of Pennsylvania (appointed in 1874) Dec. 19, 1885 



Noah Porter, of Connecticut (appointed in 1878) Jan. 26, 1884 



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



Regents. 



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