XIV .lOUKNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 



annual meeting op the board op regents. 



January 27, 1892. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution was hekl to-day at 10 A. m. Present: Mr. Chief Justice 

 Fuller, Vice-President Morton, the Hon. J. S. Morrill, the Hon. S. M. 

 Cullom, the Hon. R. L. Gibson, the Hon. Joseph Wheeler, the Hon. W. 

 C. P. Breckinridge, Dr. Henry Ooppee, Dr. J. B. Angell, Dr. William 

 Preston Johnston, the Hon. J. B. Henderson, and the Secretary. 



Excuses for non-attendance were read from Dr. J. C. Welling, caused 

 by illness, and from Dr. A. D. White, by imi)ortant engagements. 



The Chancellor stated that the minutes of the annual meeting of 

 January 28, 1891, and of the special meeting of October 21, 1891, were 

 of considerable length, and the Secretary was requested to read them 

 in abstract, which was done. 



The Secretary announced that the Vice-President on December 

 15, 1891, re-a])pointed as Regent the Hon. J. S. Morrill, a United 

 States Senator ; that the Speaker of the House had re-appointed Repre- 

 sentatives Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama; Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa- 

 chusetts, and appointed Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Ken- 

 tucky, and that further vacancies in the Board had been filled by the 

 re-appointment, by joint resolution ap])roved by the President, January 

 26, 1892, of Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, and by the appointment 

 of William Preston Jolmston, of Louisiana, and John B. Henderson, 

 of the District of Columbia. 



The Secretary announced the death of Gen. M. C. Meigs, a Regent 

 at large, on January 2, 1892. 



Dr. Coppee moved that a committee, to consist of one member of the 

 Board and the Secretary, be appointed to present to this meeting an 

 ol)ituary notice of the late Gen. Meigs. The motion was carried, and 

 the Chancellor nominated Dr. Coppee to act with the Secretary. Dr. 

 Coppee, after expressing his regret at the illness of the chairman of the 

 Executive Committee, and his personal sorrow at the death of his col- 

 league on the committee. Gen. Meigs, read the following memorial reso- 

 lution: 



MEMORIAL KECOUD OF GEN. M. C. MEIGS. 



The Board of Regents of the Smitlisoniau Institution desires to place on record 

 the expression of its sincere sorrow and its sense of the great loss it has suffered in 

 the death of Gen. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, a member of the Board and 

 one of its Executive Committee. His valuable services to the Institution l)egan 

 indeed before he was officially connected with it as a regent and continued until 

 his death. 



While Gen. Meigs was prominently associated with many useful undertakings, his 

 record as a soldier and as a citizen is marked bj' unswerving fidelity and extraor- 

 dinary capability. The principal events of liis life can only bo briefly mentioned, 

 as showing what varied experience he placed at the service of the Institution, 



