XVIII REPORT ON THE HENRY STATUE. 



Hon. Hiester Clymer was selected to deliver an address appropriate 

 to the occasion, but on account of ill health declined the appointment, 

 and President Noah Porter, of Yale College, one of the Eegents, was 

 invited by the Executive Committee to perform the service. 



Eev. Dr. John Maclean and Kev. A. A. Hodge, of Princeton, N. J., 

 were invited to offer prayer on the occasion. By reason of ill health, 

 however, Dr. Maclean was prevented from attending. 



The direction of the executive details of the occasion were assigned 

 by Professor Baird to Mr. William J. Ehees, the chief clerk. 



By direction of the Board of Eegents, the following letter was ad- 

 dressed by Professor Baird, Secretary of the Institution, to the Hon. 

 Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives, January 17, 1883 : 



"Sir: I have the honor to inform the House of Eepresentatives that 

 in accordance with the act of Congress of June 1, 1880, providing that 

 the Eegents of the institution be 'authorized to contract with W. W. 

 Story, sculptor, for a bronze statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, to be erected in the grounds of said insti- 

 tution,' the statue has been executed and received in Washington, and 

 that Thursday the 19th of April has been selected as the day for the 

 public unveiling of the same. 



"The Congress of the United States having ordered this statue and 

 made the appropriation necessary therefor, the Board of Eegents re- 

 spectfully invite the Senate and House of Eepresentatives to be present 

 on the occasion of its formal presentation to the public. 



"I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant." 



A joint resolution was passed by Congress, February 24, 1883, accept- 

 ing the invitation to attend the inauguration of the statue. 



"No. 16. Joint resolution accepting the invitation of the Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution to attend the inauguration of the statue of Joseph Henry. 



" Whereas, in a communication from Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, Congress was informed that in accordance 

 with an act of June first, eighteen hundred and eighty, the bronze 

 statue of Joseph Henry, late Secretary of the Smithsonion Institution, 

 had been completed; and whereas, in the same communication, Con- 

 gress was respectfully invited to be present on the occasion of its formal 

 presentation to the public, upon Thursday the nineteenth of April next; 

 Therefore be it 



Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That the said invitation be, and the 

 same is hereby, accepted by the Senate and House of Eepresentatives ; 

 and that the President of the Senate select seven members of that body, 

 and the Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives fifteen members of 

 that body, to be present and represent the Congress of the United 



