504 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS 



The Chancellor appointed Messrs. Trumbull, Patterson, Agassiz, and the 

 Secretary as the committee. 



General Delafield, from the special committee appointed at the last meeting 

 in regard to the depository of the funds, reported in part, and asked for further 

 time, which was granted. 



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



February 22, 1867. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents was held at 7 p. m., in the room of the 



Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, United States Capitol. 



Present : Chief Justice Chase, Chancellor, Hon. W. P. Fessenden, Hon. J. 



W. Patterson, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, Hon. R. Wallach, 



General R. Delafield, and Professor Henry, Secretary. 



The Chancellor took the chair and the minutes were read and approved. 

 The Secretary stated that it had become his painful duty at this time to 

 announce the departure from life of another and one of the most important and 

 highly esteemed members of the Board. Since the last meeting Professor 

 Alexander Dallas Bache, head of the United States Coast Survey and Regent 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, had, after a protracted illness, died, on the 17th 

 February, at Newport, Rhode Island, in the sixty-first year of his age ; that 

 though this occurrence must be felt as a sad calamity by all familiar with the 

 progress of art, science, and education in this country for the last forty years, 

 and by all who had been favored with a personal acquaintance with the deceased, 

 yet lie begged to be permitted to say that none, save his bereaved widow, could 

 feel the loss more deeply than himself. He had been on terms of brotherly 

 association with him for more than thirty years. It had been principally 

 through the influence of Professor Bache that he had been induced to venture 

 to accept the appointment of Secretary of this Institution, and that with the 

 sympathy, counsel and support of the deceased, he had been enabled, through 

 all the eventful changes which had since taken place, to continue the discharge 

 of the responsible duties of the office. 



On motion of Mr. Patterson, it was 



Resolved, That the highest honor is due to the memory of our respected and 

 beloved associate, Professor ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, who, through 

 so many years of active life, has devoted, unselfishly and with untiring energy, 

 great talents, profound acquirements, and undeviating integrity to the advance of 

 art, science, education, and philanthropy. 



Resolved, That in the death of our lamented associate, this Institution, of which 

 he was a Regent and one of the executive committee from its first organization 

 to the time of his death, has lost an efficient collaborator, a sagacious counsellor, 

 and zealous supporter. 



Resolved, That the members of the Board, in common with the Secretary, 

 lament in his departure the loss of a warm and tried personal friend, and that they 

 will always cherish the memory of his genial and sympathetic disposition, his 



