JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Washington, January 20, 1869. 



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

 Institution, fixing the time of beginning of the 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 Wednesday, 27th 

 January, 1869, at 7£ o'clock. 



Washington, January 27, 1869. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents was held at 7£ o'clock p. m. at the Insti- 

 tution. Present, Hon. B. F. Wade, Hon. W. P. Fessenden, Hon. L. Trumbull, 

 Hon. 0. Davis, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. J. V. L. Pruyn, Hon. R. Delafield, 

 Hon. P. Parker, Rev. Dr. John Maclean, Hon. S. J. Bowen, and Professor 

 Henry, the secretary. 



Mr. Wade was called to the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were 

 read and approved. 



The secretary stated that since the last session, Mr. Sayles J. Bowen had been 

 elected mayor of the city of Washington, and thereby became ex-officio a mem- 

 ber of the board in place of Mr. Wallach, and that Professor Agassiz's term had 

 expired, but a resolution reappointing him a Regent had passed the Senate. 



General Delafield, in behalf of the Executive Committee, presented the annual 

 account of receipts and expenditures for the year 1868, with estimates for the 

 year 1869; which was read, and, 



On motion of Mr. Pruyn, the report was adopted. 



General Delafield also presented the following report relative to the Washing- 

 ton city canal, which was read : 



Report of the executive committee on a resolution of the Regents of the Smithson-. 

 ian Institution on the influences of the Washington city canal on the JieaWi of 

 the population of the city, May 15, 1868.* 



The executive committee, to which was referred the resolution of the Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution of the 22d of April, 1868, instructing it to ascer- 



* Senate Mis. Doc. No. 95, 40th Congress, 2d session. 



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