820 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



In this connection the Speaker stated that Alexander H. Stephens, 

 of Georgia, who had been a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 absolutel}^ declined to serve further as such, l^ecause, owing to the 

 state of his health, he was unable to attend the sessions of the Board. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By Joint Resolution. 

 December 8, 1879 — Senate. 



Mr. Hannibal Hamlin introduced a joint resolution (S. 50) that 

 Asa Gray, of Massachusetts, Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, John 

 Maclean, of New Jersey, and Peter Parker, of the city of Washing- 

 ton, be reappointed as Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, 

 proceeded to consider the joint resolution. 



Mr. Hamlin. I will state the reasons for the passage of this resolu- 

 tion. Before the annual meeting of the Regents of the Institution 

 shall take place in January, the term of office of these four persons 

 will expire, and they are to be reappointed hy resolution of the House 

 and Senate. If we take a recess, as we proljably shall, before the Board 

 will convene, it will be destitute of these four Regents. I take it there 

 can be no opposition to the reappointment of these four gentlemen, 

 who have rendered eminent and distinguished service to the Institu- 

 tion. I believe the reappointment meets the concurrence of all the 

 Regents as well as of Professor Baird. 



Passed. 

 December 9, f 879— House. 



Passed. 

 December 19, 1879. 



Resolved^ etc., That the existing vacancies in the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution' of the class other than members of Con- 

 gress, shall be tilled by the reappointment of Asa Gray of Massachu- 

 setts, Henry Coppee of Pennsylvania, John Maclean of New Jersey 

 and Peter Parker of the city of Washington, whose terms have expired. 



(Stat., XXI, 299.) 



JOSEPH HENRY^ — PORTRAIT FOR MEMORIAL VOLUME. 



April 7, 1879— Senate. 



Mr. H. B. Anthony introduced joint resolution (S. 17) author- 

 izing the printing of a portrait of the late Joseph Henry, to accom- 

 pany the memorial volume heretofore ordered. (Same as passed by 

 both Houses in the third session of Forty -fifth Congress.) 



Referred to Committee on Printing. 

 April 9, 1879— Senate. 



Reported by Committee and passed. 



