150 BOARD OF REGENTS. 



To sum up the results of the preceding investigation in a few 

 words, we have shown that Mr. Morse 'himself has acknowledged 

 the value of the discoveries of Professor Henry to his electric tele- 

 graph; that his associate and scientific assistant, Dr. Gale, has 

 distinctly affirmed that these discoveries were applied to his tele- 

 graph, and that previous to such application it was impossible for 

 Mr. Morse to operate his instrument at a distance ; that Professor 

 Henry's experiments were witnessed by Professor Hall and others 

 in 1832, and that these experiments showed the possibility of trans- 

 mitting to a distance a force capable of producing mechanical 

 effects adequate to making telegraphic signals ; that Mr. Henry's 

 deposition of 1849, which evidently furnished the motive for Mr. 

 Morse's attack upon him, is strictly correct in all the historical de- 

 tails, and that, so far as it relates to Mr. Henry's own claim as a 

 discoverer, is within what he might have claimed with entire justice; 

 that he gave the deposition reluctantly, and in no spirit of hostility 

 to Mr. Morse ; that on that and other occasions he fully admitted 

 the merit of Mr. Morse as an inventor ; and that Mr. Morse's pat- 

 ent was extended through the influence of the favorable opinion 

 expressed by Professor Henry. 



Your committee come unhesitatingly to the conclusion that Mr. 

 Morse has failed to substantiate any one of the charges he has made 

 against Professor Henry, although the burden of proof lay upon 

 him ; and that all the evidence, including the unbiased admissions 

 of Mr. Morse himself, is on the other side. Mr. Morse's charges 

 not only remain unproved but they are positively disproved. 



Your committee recommend the adoption of the following reso- 

 lutions : 



Resolved That Professor Morse has not succeeded in refuting the statements of 

 Professor Henry in the deposition given hy the latter in 1849 ; that he has not proved 

 any one of the accusations against Professor Henry made in the article in "Shaffner's 

 Telegraph Companion" in 1855, and that he has not disproved any one of his own 

 admissions in regard to Professor Henry's discoveries in electro-magnetism, and their 

 importance to his own invention of the electro-magnetic telegraph. 



Resolved, That there is nothing in Professor Morse's article that diminishes, in the 

 least, the confidence of this Board in the integrity of Professor Henry, or in the value 

 of those great discoveries which have placed his name among those of the most dis- 

 tinguished cultivators of science, and have done much to exalt the scientific reputa- 

 tion of the country. 



Resolved, That this report, with the resolutions, be recorded in the proceedings of 

 the Board of Kegents of the Institution. 



The report was accepted, and the resolutions were unanimously 

 adopted. 



The Board then adjourned sine die. 



