JOURNAL OF THE BOARD. XI 



the Smithsonian Institution are hereby tendered to General M. C. 

 Meigs, Quartermaster- General United States Army, for his hipihly val- 

 ued services as consulting engineer of the National Museum Building 

 Commission, in connection with the duty with which the Commission 

 was charged by the Board in the construction of a fire-proof building 

 for the United States National Museum. 



Dr. Gray presented the following report of the Special Committee to 

 prepare the Henry Memorial Volume : 



To the Board op Eegents : 



Gentlemen : The Special Committee of the Board of Eegents ap- 

 pointed to prepare for publication a volume of suitable notices and ad- 

 dresses commemorative of the late Professor Henry, have the honor to 

 present the following report : 



At a meeting of the Board of Regents held January 17, 1879, it was — 



" Besolved, That a special committee of thyee be appointed, of which 

 the Secretary of the Institution shall be one, to prepare a memorial of 

 Professor Henry, to include in a separate volume of the Smithsonian 

 series such biographies and notices of the late Secretary of the Institution 

 as may be considered by them worthy of preservation and publication ;'^ 

 whereupon the Chancellor appointed Messrs. Gray, Parker, and Baird 

 as the committee. 



On the 6th of February, 1879, a concurrent resolution was adopted 

 by Congress to print 15,000 copies of the Memorial Exercises in honor 

 of Professor Henry, held in the hall of the House of Representatives on 

 the 16th of January, 1879, in a memorial volume, together with such 

 articles as may be furnished by the Board of Eegents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 7,000 copies of which were for the use of the House 

 of Representatives, 3,000 copies for the use of the Senate, and 5,000 

 copies lor the use of the Smithsonian Institution. 



These two proceedings thus covered substantially the same ground. 



In accordance with its instructions your committee has prepared a 

 memorial volume, prefaced with a brief account of the proceedings in 

 Congress relative to a public commemoration by services in the hall of 

 the House of Representatives, and consisting of three parts, viz : 



Part 1. The Obsequies of Joseph Henry and the proceedings con- 

 nected therewith. 



Part 2. The Memorial Exercises and Addresses at the Capitol, on the 

 evening of January 10, 1879. 



Part 3. A collection of proceedings by, and addresses before, some of 

 the principal societies in this country with which Professor Henry had 

 been connected. 



An appendix of four pages contains an account of the proceedings in 

 Congress ordering the erection of a bronze statue of the distinguished 

 subject of our memorial. 



The whole forms an octavo volunio of 532 pages, which has been pub- 

 lished as vol. 21 of the Sinillisouian Miscellaneous Collections. 



