JOUENAL OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS 



OF THE 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Washington, 2lai/ 23, 1870, 



A meeting of the Board of Eegents was lieldtliis eveniug, at the call 

 of the Secretary. Present: Hon. L. P. Poland, Hon. L. Trumbull, Hon. 

 J. A. Garfield, Hon. S. S. Cox, General Delalield, Hon. Peter Parker, 

 Eev. Dr. J. Maclean, and Professor Henry, the Secretary. 



In the absence of the Chancellor, Judge Poland was called to the 

 chair. 



The Secretary presented the report of the expenditures on account of 

 the Government collections for the year 1SG9; and, on motion of General 

 Garfield, it was resolved that the Board of Eegents apply to Congress 

 for an appropriation of $10,000 for the care of the Government collec- 

 tions during the year 1870. 



Professor Henry stated that the resolution of the board adopted at 

 the meeting of February 3, 1870, authorizing him to visit Europe, had 

 been entirely unexi)ected to him, as he had received no intimation pre- 

 vious to its being offered that it was in contemplation ; that he had con- 

 cluded to avail himself of the resolution, and that he was making prepa- 

 rations for his departure on the 1st of June ; that he intended to make 

 arrangements for the operations of the Institution which were to be 

 carried on during his absence ; that he intended to settle all the accounts 

 which would be due at the time of his departure ; to deposit checks for 

 the salaries accruing during his absence, to be paid on the indorsement 

 of Professor Baird ; and also to deposit to the credit of that officer $2,000, 

 to pay transportation and incidental expenses ; that he had been much 

 gratified with the expressions of kind feeling which had been called 

 forth by the announcement of his intended visit to Europe, and the 

 offers which he had received from the Cuuard and Bremen lines of 

 steamers of a free passage across the ocean. 



The board then adjourned. 



Washington, January IS, 1871. 

 In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Eegents of tlie Smith 

 sonian Institution, fixing the time of the beginning of their annual meet- 



