JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE BOA.HD OF H E a E N T S 



OP THE 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION* 



Washington, December 19, 1873. 



A special meeting of the Board of Regents was held at 7 p. m. at the 

 institution. Present, Mr. Justice Nathan Clifford, acting Chief Justice 

 of the United States, Hon. H. Hamlin, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. L. P. 

 Poland, Hon. Peter Parker, Geueral Sherman, and the Secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Henry. 



The Secretary stated that the meeting had been called for the pur- 

 pose of electing a chancellor in place of Chief Justice Chase, who had 

 deceased, and that this was a case of emergency, as the semi-annual 

 interest, due on the first of next month, necessary to carry on the opera- 

 tions of the Institution, could only be drawn according to law on the 

 requisition of the chancellor and secretary of the Institution. 



On motion of Geueral Garfield, Mr. Justice Nathan Clifford was 

 elected chancellor. 



The Secretary announced that since the last meeting of the board 

 two of its most prominent and valuable members had deceased, Chief 

 Justice Chase and Professor Agassiz. 



On motion of Mr. Hamlin, a committee was appointed to prepare reso- 

 lutions expressing the sentiments of the board in regard to the death 

 of Mr. Chase and Professor Agassiz. 



The chancellor appointed Messrs. Hamlin, Sherman, Parker, and 

 the Secretary as the committee. 



General Garfield made the following remarks : 



Mr. Chancellor: I rise to second the motion for the appointment 

 of a committee to draught resolutions in reference to the death of our 

 distinguished brother regents Chief Justice Chase and Professor 

 Agassiz. 



Never before in a single year has the Board of Regents suffered so 

 severe a loss. It would be difficult to find, in any organization, two 

 men more eminent, and representing a wider range of culture, than the 

 two regents who have fallen since the last meeting of this board. 



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