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examined by the Executive Committee, and the result reported to 

 the Board of Regents. 



The Secretary presented his annual report of the operations of 

 the Institution during the year 1861, which was read and approved. 



The Board then adjourned to meet at the call of the Secretary. 



May 1, 1862. 



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

 Regents' room. 



Present, Hon. L. Trumbull, Hon. Edward, McPherson, Hon. R. 

 Wallach, General J. G. Totten, Professor A. D. Bache, Dr. Theo- 

 dore D. Woolsey, and the Secretary. 



General Totten was called to the chair. 



The minutes were read and approved. 



The Secretary announced that since the last meeting of the 

 Board Dr. C. C. Felton had deceased, and that Congress had, by 

 joint resolution, appointed Theodore D. Woolsey, LL.D., Presi- 

 dent of Yale College, to fill the vacancy thus occasioned. 



Professor Bache, after a few appropriate remarks, offered the 

 following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Board of Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution deeply mourn 

 the loss of their fellow-regent, Cornelius Conway Felton, the distinguished President 

 of Harvard University, whose profound learning and ready use of the rich stores of 

 ancient and modern lore excited general admiration, while his genial temper, affec- 

 tionate disposition, and open manners, endeared him as a friend to every memher of 

 this establishment. 



Resolved, That in the death of President Felton our country, in the hour of its 

 trial, has lost a wise and influential citizen, our Government a warm and eloquent 

 supporter, Harvard University a learned and efficient head, and this Institution an 

 active and valued Kegent. 



Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the bereaved family of President Felton r 

 and offer to them our heartfelt sympathy in their deep affliction. 



Resolved, That Dr. Woolsey be requested to prepare a suitable notice of President 

 Felton, to be inserted in the Journal of the Board of Eegents. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be communicated by the Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution to the family of the deceased, and to the faculty and cor- 

 poration of Harvard. 



EULOGY BY PROFESSOR WOOLSEY. 



The duty has been laid upon me of preparing a brief tribute to the memory of 

 Cornelius C. Felton, late a Eegent of the Smithsonian Institution. I undertake this 

 office the more readily, because a friendly and most pleasant acquaintance of nearly 

 thirty years standing, cemented by common pursuits and unbroken by any of those 

 jealousies which sometimes divide men of the same literary calling, has enabled me 

 to form a definite opinion of the worth and services of one whose death the country, 

 in common with Massachusetts and with Harvard University, deplores. 



Cornelius Conway Felton, the son of worthy but by no means opulent parents, was 

 born at West Newbury, Massachusetts, November 6, 1807. The first decided impulse 

 in the direction of scholarship and of a taste for letters was given to him by Simeon 

 Putnam, who kept a private school at North Andover, with whom he remained as a 

 pupil a year and three months. In this year and a quarter prior to his entrance into 

 college, Putnam awakened so great an enthusiasm in the mind of his pupil, that the 

 latter, according to a statement in manuscript drawn up by one of his friends, "read 



