JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



Washington, D. C, 3Iai/ 13, 1878. 

 A meetings of the Board of Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution was 

 held this day at the Institution, at 8 o'clock }). m., under the following 

 call: 



Smithsonian Institxjtion, 



May 13, 1878. 

 The Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution are requested to meet at 

 the Smithsonian building at 8 o'clock this Monday evening, to make suit- 

 able arrangements for the obsequies of Prof. Joseph Henry, whose 

 decease occurred at 12.10 o'clock this afternoon. 

 By order of — 



M. E. WAITE, Chancellor. 



Present, the Chancellor — Chief Justice Waite, Hon. H. Hamlin, Hon. 

 A. A. Sargent, Hon. K. E. Withers, Hon. H. Clymer, Hon. J. A. Gar- 

 field, Hon. Peter Parker, General W. T. Sherman. 



The Chancellor made the following remarks : 



My Brethren of the Board op Eegents: I have asked you 

 to come together this evening not to take action upon the great loss our 

 Institution has sustained, but to consult as to what may best be done to 

 l)ay honor to all that is mortal of the great and good man who, conceiv- 

 ing what Smithson willed, has devoted his life to making the bequest of 

 our benefactor what he wished it to be, an instrument " for the increase 

 and diffusion of knowledge among men." 



The Chancellor stated that hennderstood that the family of Professor 

 Henry had expressed the wish that the Board of Eegents should make 

 all the arrangements for the funeral. 



Several of the Eegents expressed their opinion that this was not the 

 appropriate time to eulogize the deceased, as another and full meeting 

 of the Board should be called for that purpose. 



The following resolutions were adopted : 



Besolvcd, That the Chancellor be directed to notify the President of 

 the United States and his Cabinet, the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the two houses of 

 Congress, the General of the Army, the Admiral of the Navy, the Diplo- 

 matic Corps, the Light-House Board, the jSTational Academy of Sciences, 

 the Washington Philosophical Society, and other organizations with 



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