JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS 



OF THE 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Washington, D. C, February 3, 1870. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 was held on Thursday, February 3, 1870, at 7 o'clock p. m., at the Insti- 

 tution. 



Present: Chief Justice Chase, Chancellor of the Institution, Messrs. 

 Hamlin, Trumbull, Poland, Cox, Maclean, Delafield, Parker, and the 

 secretary. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. 



Professor Henry, the secretary, announced that Hon. Hannibal Ham- 

 bin, of the Senate, had been appointed a Eegent, vice Mr. Fessenden, 

 deceased ; that Hon. James A. Garfield and L. P. Poland had been 

 reappointed from the House of Eepresentatives ; and that Hon. S. S. 

 Cox had been appointed, vice Mr. Pruyn, whose term had expired. 



The secretary announced the death of Charles Armistead Alexander^ 

 esq., a valued collaborator of the Institution, whose series of spirited 

 translations of the eulogies of eminent men, delivered before foreign 

 academies, have added much value to the annual reports of this estab- 

 lishment, and have been received in several cases with much commen- 

 dation by the original authors. 



On motion of Dr. Maclean, it was 



Resolved, That the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution recognize, 

 in the death of Charles A. Alexander, esq., the loss of a valued collabo- 

 rator, and that they sympathize with his friends and relatives in the 

 bereavement to which they are subjected. 



The secretary presented a general statement of the financial condition 

 of the Institution. 



General Delafield presented the annual report of the Executive Com- 

 mittee relative to the receipts and expenditures during the year 1869, 

 and the estimates for the year 1870, which was read and accepted. 



On motion of Dr. Maclean the secretary was directed to have an in- 

 surance effected on the east wing and range of the Smithsonian building 

 to such amount as he may think necessary. 



The secretary presented the eulogy on the late Professor A. D. Bache, 

 which was received and ordered to be printed in the annual report. 



General Delafield, for the Executive Committee, reported that they 

 were still collecting facts and statistics relative to the city canal, and 

 would hereafter present a further report. 



The secretary stated that it was his painful duty to announce that 

 since the last meeting of the Board the death had occurred of one of its 

 most distinguished members — the Hon. William Pitt Fessenden. 



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