XIV JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



The Secretary said that lie had hoped that Congress wouhl pass an 

 act providing- for the erection of a statne of his eminent predecessor, 

 Secretary 1 >aird, as it had done in the case ol" Secretary Ilenry. Ettbrts 

 iu this direction in the past had, however, failed, but though he had 

 foregone neither the hope nor the intention, the present time was evi- 

 dently not opportune to secure such legislation. There was now no 

 altogether satisfactory likeness of Secretary Baird. The Secretary 

 desired to submit to the Board of Regents the propriety of authorizing 

 the execution of an oil portrait of the late Secretary, which, as in the 

 case of the one of Secretary Ilenry, might be placed in the Eegeuts' 

 Room in perpetual remembrance of him. 



Senator Morrill then read the following resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That tLe Secretary be requested to have a life-size portrait of tlie late 

 Secretary of the Institution (Spencer F. Baird) painted by some comjietent artist, 

 which, when finished, may be preserved iu the room occupied by the Regents for 

 their meetings. 



The Secretary then stated to the Board that, under its resolution to 

 provide a new seal for the Institution, he had consulted Mr. Augustus 

 St. Gaudens, the eminent sculptor, who had taken interest in the mat- 

 ter, giving his personal suiiervision to the preparation and arrangement 

 of the lettering. [The Secretary here exhibited an imx)ression of a 

 seal executed from Mr. St. Gaudens's design.] Mr, St. Gaudens had, 

 when asked to render a bill, replied that he did not desire to submit an 

 account. The Secretary therefore thought that some action of the 

 Regents would be appropriate. 



Senator Gray submitted the following resolution: 



Besolved, That the Secretary be requested to convey, in fitting terms, tlie thanks of 

 the Board of Regents to Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens for his design for a new seal for 

 the Institution. 



On motion the resolution was adopted. 



The Secretary brought to the attention of the Board of Regents the 

 fact that the late Chinese minister had presented to it an ancient and 

 specially rare bronze vase, the receipt of which had been noted only by 

 the ordinary form of acknowledgment at the time, and he therefore 

 thought that the Regents might like to authorize him to give, even at 

 this late day, some more formal expression of their thanks. 



Thereupon Mr. Gray submitted the following resolution : 



liesoliivd, That the Secretary is requested to convey, in fitting terms, the thanks of 

 the Board of Regents to his excellency Chang Yen Hoon, member of the ministry of 

 the Tsung Li Yaincn, for the gift of a valuable ancient vase, presented by him to the 

 Smithsonian Institution (in June, 1889). 



On motion the resolution was unanimously adopted. 

 There beinpf no further business to come before the Board, on motion 

 it adjourned. 



