REGENTS OF THE SMTTFISONIAN INSTITUTION. 



By the or.ua nizino- act approved August 10, 1840 (Revised Statutes, 

 Title LXXiii, section 5580), " The business of the Institution shall be 

 conducted at the city of Washiniiton 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 i)ersons, 

 other than members of Congress, two of whom sliall be resident in the 

 city of Washington and the other four shall be inhabitants of some 

 State, but no two of the same State." 



nEdEXTS FOU THE YEAR 1S9:^. 



The Chief-Justice of the Tluitcd States : 



MELVILLE W. FULLER, elected ('h:imtll..i- ;m<l I'lesident of tlie BoardJau- 

 uary 9, 1889. 



The Vice-President of the Iluited States: 

 LEVI P. MORTON. 



United States Senators: Term pxinie.'i. 



- JUSTIN S. MORRILL (appointed Feh. 21, 1883, and Dec. 1.5, 1891). Mar. 3, 1897. 



SHELBY M, CULLOM (appointed Mar. 23. 1885, and Mar. 28, 1889). Mar. 3, 1895. 



GEORGE GRAY (appointed Dec. 20, 1892, and Mar. 16, 1893) Mar. 3, 1899. 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



JOSEPH WHEELER (appointed Jan. 5, 1888, and Jan. 15, 1892).. Dec. 27, 1893. 



HENRY CABOT LODGE (appointed January 15, 1892) Dec. 27, 1893. 



W. C. P. BRECKINRIDGE (appointed January 15, 1892) Dec. 27, 1893. 



Citizens of a State: 



HENRY COPPfiE, of Pennsylvania (first appointed Jan. 19. 1874). Jan. 26, 1898. 



JAMES B. ANGELL, of Michigan (appointed Jan. 19, 1887, reap- 

 pointed Jan. 9, 1893) Jan. 19, 1899. 



ANDREW D. WHITE, of New York (first appointed Feb. 15, 1888). Feb. 15, 1894. 



WILLIAM P. JOHNSTON, of Louisiana (appointed Jan. 26, 1892). Jan. 26, 1898 



Citizens of Washington: 



JAMES C. WELLINC; (first appointed May 13, 1884) May 22, 1896. 



JOHN B. HENDERSON (appointed January 26, 1892) Jan. 26, 1898. 



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