JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Washington, January U, 1888. 



The stated annual meeting of the Board of llegeuts of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution was held this day at 10:30 o'clock A. M. 



Present : Chief-Justice M. R. Waite, Chancellor of the Institution, 

 Hon. S. S. Cox, Hon. W. W. Phelps, Hon. Joseph Wheeler, Dr. 

 Henry Coppee, Dr. J. B. Angell, Dr. J. C. Welling, General M. 

 C. Meigs, and the Secretary, Professor Langley. 



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

 Senator J. S. M(»rrill. The Secretary made a statement that the ab- 

 sence of Dr. Asa Gray was caused by his severe illness. 



The journal of the proceedings of the Board at the meetings on Janu- 

 ary 12 and November 18, 1887, was read and approved. 



The Secretary stated that in accordance with the instructions of the 

 Board at the last meeting, he had again consulted with the widow of 

 the late Professor Baird, and ascertained that while she desired to 

 defer to the wishes of the Regents, her own preference would be that 

 the interment of the remains of her husband should be strictly private. 

 It was necessary therefore to depart from the arrangements which had 

 been contemplated at the last meeting of the Board, and by the advice 

 of the Executive Committee, a meeting of the Board of Regents was not 

 called as had been anticipated in December, and the stated annual 

 meeting is therefore now held at tbe regular time, as provided by the 

 regulations of the Board of Regents. 



The Chancellor announced the appointment by the President of the 

 Senate, on December 19, 1887, of Hon. Randall L. Gibson, of Louisiana, 

 as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, vice Senator Maxey, whose 

 term had expired. 



The Chancellor also announced the appointment by the Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives, on January 5, 1888, of Hon. S. S. Cox, 

 of New York, as regent, vice Hon. O. R. Singleton, who had not been 

 re-elected to Congress ; and on the 10th of January, of Hon. Joseph 

 Wheeler, of Alabama, vice Hon. W. L. Wilson, and the re-appointment 

 of Hon. W. W. Phelps, of New Jersey. 



Dr. Welling, chairman of the Executive Committee, presented its an- 

 nual report for the year ending June 30, 1887. 



Dr. Welling, in presenting the report, called attention to !f paragraph 

 on the third page, relative to the appropriation for "ethnological re- 



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