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 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 

 ihe 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 1885. 



Term expires. 

 The Vice-President of the United States : 



.JOHN SHERMAN (elected President of Senate Dec. 7, 188.^). 



Tlie Chief Justice of the United States: 

 MORRISON R. WAITE. 



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 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



OTHO R. SINGLETON (appointed January 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



WILLIAM L. WILSON (appointed January 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



WILLIAM W. PHELPS (appointed January 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



Citizens of Washington : 



JAMES C. WELLING (appointed May 13, 1884) May 13,1890 



MONTGOMERY C. MEIGS (appointed Dec. 2(3, 1885) Dec. 26, 1891 



Citizens of a State : 



JOHN MACLEAN, of New Jersey (first appointed in 1868) Dec. 26, 1891 



ASA Gray, of Massachusetts (first appointed in 1874) Doc. 26, 1891 



HENRY COPPEE, of Pennsylvania (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 26, 1891 



NOAH PORTER, of Connecticut (appointed in 1878) Mar. 3, 1890 



MORRISON R. WAITE, Chancellor of the Institution and President of the Board of 



Regents. 



Executive Committee of the Board of Regents 

 John Maclean. J Ames C. Wk:,i.ing. Henry Copp6e. 



