JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS 



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THE BOARD OF REGEITS. 



, Washington, January 17, 1SG6. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, fixing the time of beginning of their annual session on the third 

 Wednesday of January in each year, a meeting was called for this day. 



No quorum being present, the Board adjourned to meet on Saturday, Feb- 

 ruary 3, 1866. 



Washington, February 3, XS66. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents was held at 12 m. in the laboratory X)f the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Present : Hon. L. F. S.Foster, Vice-President of the United States, Hon. Garret 

 Davis, Hon, Lyman Trumbull, Hon. J. W. Patterson, Hon. J. A. Garfield, 

 Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, General Richard Delafield, Hon. Richard Wallach,and 

 Professor Henry, Secretary. 



Mr. Foster was called to the chair. 



The Secretary stated that since the last annual session the following gentle- 

 men had been appointed as Regents by the Speaker of the House of Represen- 

 tatives : 



Hon. J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire ; Hon. J. A. Garfield, of Ohio ; 

 Hon. J. F. Farnsworth of Illinois. 



Mr. Patterson was reappointed a Regent, and Messrs. Garfield and Farnsworth 

 were appointed to succeed Hon. S. S. Cox and Hon. H. Winter Davis, whose 

 terms as members from the House of Representatives had expired. 



The Secretary gave a general account of the objects and operations 1)fi;he 

 Institution, the nature of the will of Smithson, &c. 



General Delafield, from the Executive Committee, presented a report of ihe 

 financial condition of the Institution, and gave an account of what had been 

 done towards the reconstruction of the building. 



The Secretary presented a notice from Roswell C. Brainard, e»q., surrogate 

 of the county of Kings, New York, requiring the Smithsonian InsUtJJ.tion-to 

 appear at his office, in Brooklyn, New York, on the 19th of March next, at 

 10 o'clock a. m., to attend the final settlement of the account of Francis Vinton, 

 as executor of and trustee under the last will and testament of Thomas Wynns, 

 deceased, of whose estate the Institution is a residuary legatee. 



