JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XIII 



Under the inspiration of these sentiments, I respectfully submit the 

 following resolutions : 



Whereas, since the date of the last meeting of the Board of Re- 

 gents of the Smithsonian Institution, its members have been called to 

 mourn the loss of their venerable and distinguislied colleague, the late 

 Rev. John Maclean, D. D., LL. D., sometime President of Princeton 

 College, who held the office of Regent for the term of eighteen years, 

 during seventeen of which he served on its Executive Committee with 

 no less credit to himself than usefulness to the Institution : Therefore, 

 be it 



Besolved, That with a high appreciation of the varied, abundant, and 

 intelligent labors which the late Dr. Maclean brought to the cause of cul- 

 ture, of truth, and of righteousness throughout the whole of his long, 

 useful, and honorable career; with a grateful sense of the manifold 

 services he rendered to the Smithsonian Institution, for whose welfare 

 he worked without weariness and watched without flagging, even after 

 he had begun to feel the burden of age; with profound sorrow for his 

 death, mingled with reverence for his beautiful memory, and with 

 thanksgivings for the serene and peaceful close of a finished life, as full 

 of years as it was full of honors, we hereby testify and record our ad- 

 miration of the exalted Christian character with which he dignified and 

 adorned every station that he was called to hold in the eyes of men ; 

 our respect for the solidity of the learning which supported him in the 

 high discharge of every professional duty, whether in the pulpit, the 

 academic chair, or the post of executive administration ; and lastly, 

 in special recognition of the grateful savor which his genial presence 

 never failed to shed on the deliberations of this council-chamber, our 

 cheerful and loyal homage to the dignity of bearing and amenity of 

 manners which made him as courteous in debate as he was wise in coun- 

 sel, as gracious in all the relations of private life as he was inflexible in 

 the maintenance of Christian honor and conscientious in the perform- 

 ance of public duty. 



Besolved, That this preamble and resolution be spread on the min- 

 utes of the Board in respectful tribute to the services and memory of 

 our venerated colleague, and that a copy of these resolutions be trans- 

 mitted to the family of our deceased friend in token of the share we 

 fain would take with them in this bereavement. 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote. 



The Chancellor announced the election, by joint resolution of Con- 

 gress, of Dr. James B. Angell, President of the Universitj'^ of Michi- 

 gan, to fill the vacancy in the Board occasioned by the death of Dr. 

 Maclean. 



The annual report of the Executive Committee for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 188G, was presented by its chairman, Dr. Welling, who 

 stated that it gave him pleasure to inform the Board that his colleagues. 

 Dr. Coppee and General Meigs, and himself, after making a thorough 

 and minute examination of the accounts, looking at every voucher and 

 verifying the books and certificates, had not found a single error of 

 omission or commission, and he was therefore able to say that there was 

 the most gratifying evidence of the eflicieucy of the fiuauciai manage- 



