JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Annual Meeting op the Board of Eegents. 



January 24, 180 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

 January 8, 1890, by which its stated annual meeting occurs on the fourth 

 Wednesday of January, the Board met to-day at 10 o'clock a. m. 



Present: The Chancellor (the Hon. M. W. Fuller), in the chair; the 

 Vice-President (the Hon. A. E. Stevenson), the Hon. J. S. Morrill, the 

 Hon. S. M. Cullom, the Hon. George Gray, the Hon. Joseph Wheeler, 

 the Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, the Hon. E. K. Hitt, Dr. James C. 

 Welling, Dr. James B. Angell, and the Secretary, Mr. S. P. Langley. 



Excuses for nonattendance were read from Dr. William Preston 

 Johnston and the Hon. J. B. Henderson, on account of illness, and from 

 Dr. Henry Copp^e, on account of pressing business engagements. 



At the Chancellor's suggestion, the Secretary read in abstract the 

 minutes of the last meeting, which were approved. 



The Secretary then announced the following changes in the Board 

 of Kegents since the last meeting: 



The term of Senator George Gray having expired, he was on March 

 20, 1893, reappointed Regent by the Vice-President. 



Representative R. R. Hitt, who was on August 11, 1893, appointed 

 by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to fill the vacancy 

 occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Lodge, was on January 4, 1894, 

 reappointed. The terms of Representative Breckinridge, of Kentucky, 

 and Wheeler, of Alabama, having expired, they also were reappointed 

 Regents by the Speaker on January 4, 1894. 



The Secretary presented his annual report to the Board of Regents 

 for the year ending June 30, 1893, with a few remarks concerning the 

 increase in the activities of the Institution, during which he called 

 attention to its recent contributions to science, made in its Astro- 

 physical Observatory; and also to the iiresent large number of cor- 

 respondents, of which there were nearly 24,000, scattered throughout 

 the whole globe. 



On motion the report was accepted. 



Dr. Welling, on behalf of his colleagues, presented the report of the 

 executive committee for the year ending June 30, 1893, explaining that 



