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KEOliOLOGY. 



MORRISON R. WAITE, CHANCELLOR. 



In tlie order of official precedence, I am called on to first mention the 

 loss snstain^d by the Institution durinff the year, of its Chancellor, the 

 late eminent Chief-Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Morri- 

 son a. Waite, who died in this city on the 23d of March last (188S). 



His biography belongs to the whole country ; but though I have only 

 to speak of his relations to this Institution, yet one who knew him even 

 in this limited part of his important duties can not but feel that his was 

 a character of a singular sincerity, in the proper meaning of the word; 

 so that it has been well said of him that he possessed not only a moral 

 but an intellectual integrity. Of the affection, as well as respect, he 

 inspire<l, I have already spoken. Remarkable for this admirable sim- 

 plicity of character as for his kiiulness of heart, in his unwavering con- 

 scientiousness of puri)os(' in the discharge of every duty, he made him- 

 self, jierhaps, the most intluential and efficient Chancellor among the 

 very able ones the Institution has been so fortunate as to })ossess. 

 Taking ])ains to accpmint himself accurately with the character and 

 nnpiirements of the Institution, evincing an earnest sympathy in its 

 objects and in its adopted policy, he was a faithful attendant on the 

 meetings of the Boanl during the fourteen years of his presidency. 



It seems ])roper to here record, as a i)art of the official history of this 

 bereavement, that a special meeting of the Board of Regents was called 

 on the 27th of March, 1888, to take appro])riate action on the occasion, 

 and that tlu^ following resolutions, expressive of the general sentiment, 

 wcie unanimously adoi)ted and ])laced upon the journal of the 

 Board : 



Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution has 

 been called to meet in extraordinary session by thealllicting intelligence 

 that jVlorrison Remi<;k Waite, late ( 'liief flustice of tln^ Sni)rem(^ (!ourt 

 of the United States and late Chancebor of the Smitlisonian Institution, 

 has been removed by the hand of death from the scenes of liis high ac- 

 tivities and distinguished iisefnlness: Therefore be it 



Iicsolrefl, That sitting as we do at this time and place, in tln^ very 

 centei' of tliat dark sli;i(h)\v which has fidlen upon the whole land in the 

 lamented death of the late Chief-Justice Wjiite, and ai>i)alled as we are 

 by the suddenness as well as by the magnitude of the gri'at allliction 



