2 REPOKT OF THE SECRETAEY. 



Secretary and one clerk now occupies a great part of the time of five 

 l)ersons. The accounts in like manner Lave gradually demanded more 

 attention, as have all the other departments of work. 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



Senator George F. Edmunds having ceased to be President 2'>'o tem- 

 pore of the United States Senate, Hon. John Sherman was elected on the 

 7th December, 1885, to that office, and in accordance with the precedents 

 established, was placed on the list of Eegents as Acting Vice-Presi- 

 dent. 



On the 2Gth of December, 1885, a joint resolution of Congress was ap- 

 proved by the President of the United States re-electing as Regents for 

 six years, Dr. John Maclean, of Princeton, N. J., Dr. Asa Gray, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., and Dr. Henry Coppde, of Bethlehem, Pa. The same 

 resolution elected General Montgomery C. Meigs, of Washington, D. 

 C, in place of General William T. Sherman, whose term had exi)ired, and 

 who was no longer eligible as a Regent from Washington on account of 

 his change of residence to Saint Louis, Mo. 



The vacancy in the Executive Committee, occasioned by the expira- 

 tion of General Sherman's term, was filled by resolution of the Regents 

 on the 13th of January, 1886, by the election of Dr. H. Coppde ; and 

 Dr. Maclean having resigned from his place on the committee, the Re- 

 gents at the same meeting elected General Meigs to fill the vacancy. 



Dr. James C. Welling was made chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



On the 12th of January, 1886, the Speaker of the House, Hon. J. G. 

 Carlisle, re-appointed as Regents, Hon. Otho R. Singleton, of Mississippi, 

 Hon. William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, and Hon. William Walter 

 Phelps, of New Jersey. 



Portraits of the Eegents. — Efibrts have been made during the year to 

 complete the collection of likenesses of all who have served as its Re- 

 gents, and there have been added to the collection a crayon portrait of 

 Prof. Alex. D, Bache, by H. Ulke, a fine lithograph of Hon. John W. 

 Maury, formerly mayor of the city of Washington, and a photograi)h of 

 Hon. Walter Lenox, also mayor of Washington. 



We still desire likenesses of the following Regents : 



Hon. G. E. Badger, of North Carolina, 1856-1803; Hon. R. M. CharL-' 

 ton, of Georgia, 1852-1853 ; Hon. W. P. Colcock, of Georgia, 1850-1853 j 

 Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, 1 885-18865 Hon. D. Davis, of Illi- 

 nois, 1881-1883; Hon. Garret Davis, of Kentucky, 1803-1872; Hon. 

 Henry W. Davis, of Maryland, 1803-1805; Hon. Gideon Hawley, of 

 New York, 1840-1855 ; Hon. William I. Hough, of New York, 1810- 

 1847; Hon. George P. Marsh, of Vermont, 1847-1849; Hon. Benjamin 

 Stanton, of Ohio, 1850-1861; Hon. David Stuart, ofMichigan, 1853- 

 1855. 



