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attack upon him, is strictly correct in all the historical details, and that, 

 so far as it relates to Mr Henry's own claim as a discoverer, is within 

 what he might have claimed with entire justice ; that he gave the deposi- 

 tion reluctantly, and in no spirit of hostility to Mr. Morse ; that on that 

 and other occasions he fully admitted the merit of Mr. Morse as an inven- 

 tor ; and that Mr. Morse's patent was extended through the influence of 

 the favorable opinion expressed by Professor Henry, 



Your committee come unhesitatingly to the conclusion that Mr. Morse 

 has failed to substantiate any one of the charges he has made against 

 Professor Henry, although the burden of proof lay upon him ; and that 

 all the evidence, including the unbiased admissions of Mr. Morse himself, 

 is on the other side. Mr. Morse's charges not only remain unproved, but 

 they are positively disproved. 



Your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolutions : 



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Resolved, That Professor Morse has not succeeded in refuting the 

 statements of Professor Henry in the deposition given by the latter in 

 1849, that he has not proved any one of the accusations against Professor 

 Henry made in the article in Shaffner's Telegraph Companion in 1855, 

 and that he has not disproved any one of his own admissions in regard to 

 Professor Henry's discoveries in electro-magnetism, and their importance 

 to his own invention of the electro-magnetic telegraph. 



Resolved, That there is nothing in Professor Morse's article that dimin- 

 ishes, in the least, the confidence of this Board in the integrity of Prof. 

 Henry, or in the value of those great discoveries which have placed his" 

 name among those of the most distinguished cultivators of science, and 

 have done much to exalt the scientific reputation of the country. 



Resolved, That this report, with the resolutions, be recorded in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Board of Regents of the Institution. 



