JOUUNAL OF PROCi*:El)lNCS OF THE P.OART) OF REGENTS OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN mSTFrUTlOiN. 



Washington, January 9, 1889. 



The stated annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Iiistitntiou was held this day at half-past- 10 o'cloclv a. ni. 



Present: Chief- Justice Melville \V. Fuller, Hon. J. J. Ingalls, 

 Hon. J. S. Morrill, Hon. S. M. Oullom, Hon. R. L. (Iibson, Hon. S. 

 S. Cox, Hon. W. W. Phelps, Hon. Jos. Wheeler, Dr. Henry 

 CoppEE, Dr. James C. Welling, General M. C. Meigs, and the Sec- 

 retary, Mr. S. P. Langley. 



Un motion of Mr. Morrill, Mr. lugalls was called to the chair. 



Excuses for non-attendance were read from Dr. NoAii Porter ami 

 D\\ J. B. Angell, and the Secretary stated that Dr. A. 1). AVhite was 

 out of the country. 



The journal of proceedings of the Board of the regular annual meet- 

 ing of January 11 and the special called meeting of March 27, 1888, 

 was read and approved. 



The Secretary stated that since the last annual meeting the death had 

 occurred of one of the most distinguished and useful members of the 

 Board, Dr. AsA Gray, and it was pro[)er that some expression be made 

 by the Board in regard to the loss it had sustained. 



Dr. Coppee, in afevv enlogistic remarks on the late Dr. Gray, portrayed 

 his character and particularly his active usefulness as a Regent, and 

 thought the expression of the feeling of every one of his associates 

 should be placed upon the permanent records of the Institution. On his 

 motion, it was 



Iiesolvcd, That a coiiiinittee of three: be ap[)ointed, of which the Sec- 

 retary shall be chairman, to prepare, and record in our proceedings a 

 resolution expressing the seiitimi nts of the Board upon the loss of Pro- 

 fessor Gray. 



The Chair api)ointed Prof. S. P. Langley, Dr. Coppee, and Dr. Well- 

 ing as the committee, which subsequently reported the following: 



the late doctor ASA GRAY. 



It is rarely indeed that the departure from this life of sMiy man pro- 

 duces so [)rofound and so general a sense of personal loss as has fol- 

 lowed the death of our friend. Dr. Asa Gray, His associates in the 



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