XVI JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



basis of the operations described iu the last annual report of said com- 

 mittee, with full discretion on the part of the yecretary as to items of 

 expenditures properly falling under each of the heads embraced in the 

 established conduct of the Institution. 



The Chancellor informed the Board that he had the melancholy duty 

 to perform of announcing the death, yesterday, of Dr. Peter Parke u, 

 who had been for many years a Regent of the Institution and chairman 

 of its Executive Committee. 



On motion of Dr. Angell, it was resolved that the Executive Commit- 

 tee prepare resolutions relative to the death of Dr. Parker. 



Dr. Welling, of the Executive Committee, presented the following 

 resolutions, which were adoi)ted : 



Whereas the Board has received the afflictive intelligence that the 

 venerable Dr. Peter Parker, who, for sixteen years, was a member of 

 the Board of Regents, and who lor this whole period served with fidelity 

 on its Executive Committee, has departed this life after a long career 

 tilled with useful labors in the service of God and of man : Therefore, 

 be it 



Kesolved, That in the retrospect of such a life-career, protracted as it 

 was beyond the limits usually allotted to men, and yet at each stage of 

 its progress, dedicated to beneficent works in the cause of religion, 

 philanthropy, ajid science, we desire to testify our respect for the exalted 

 worth and scrupulous conscientiousness which Dr. Parker brought to 

 the discharge of every duty, and which, during his connection with the 

 government of this Institution, were nobly exemplified by the zeal and 

 diligence with which he ever watched and worked for its prosperity 

 and usefulness, even during the later period of his honorable service, 

 when the burden of years was added to the burden of his official cares, 

 and when with a less conscientious sense of public duty he might 

 have claimed an exemption from the tasks of life. 



Resolved, Tliat since the retirement of our departed colleague irom the 

 membership of this Board we have continued to follow him with the 

 grateful recollections inspired by the association of this (council cham- 

 ber, as well as with a reverent respect for the Christian patience with 

 which he bore the infirmities of advancing age and the unfaltering 

 Christian hope with which he awaited " the inevitable hour" in full 

 assurance of immortality. 



Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the 

 l^oard, and that the Secretary of the Institution is hereby requested to 

 transmit a copy of tiiem to the family of our late colleague. 



On motion, the Board then adjourned sine die. 



