PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGENTS. 101 



JOURNAL OP PROCEEDINGS. 



BOARD OF REGENTS 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Washington, January 18, 1860. 



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

 Smithsonian Institution fixing the time of the beginning of their an- 

 nual session on the third Wednesday of January of each year, the 

 Board met this day in the Regents' room of the Institution. 



Present : Hon. Jas. A. Pearce, Hon. W. H. English, and the Sec- 

 retary. 



No quorum being present, the Board adjourned to meet on the 28th 

 of January. 



January 28, 1860. 



The Board of Regents met this day, at 10^ o'clock a. m., in the 

 Regents' room, 



Present: Hon. Mr. Breckinridge, Hon. James A. Pearce, Hon. J. 

 M. Mason, Professor C. C. Felton, Professor A. D. Bache, Hon. J. 

 G. Berret, W. W. Seaton, esq., Treasurer, and the Secretary. 



The Secretary announced the reappointment, by the Vice-Presi- 

 dent, under a resolution of the Senate, of the Hon. S. A. Douglas, as 

 a Regent for the term of six years, and stated that the House of Rep- 

 resentatives not having organized, the vacancies in the Board from 

 that body had not been filled. He regretted to state that the Chan- 

 cellor of the Institution, Chief Justice Taney, was confined to his bed 

 by temporary illness; that Mr. Hawley, of Albany, was unable to at- 

 tend on account of bad health, and that since the last meeting of the 

 Regents a vacancy had occurred in the Board by the death of the 

 Hon. Richard Rush, of Philadelphia. 



Hon. Mr. Pearce then made the following remarks: 



Since the last meeting of the Board of Regents, as announced by 

 the Secretary, one of its earliest and most distinguished members, 

 the Hon. Richard Rush, has departed this life. 



The history of his public career is familiar to all the Regents, to 



