PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAKD OF RECENTS OF THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



At the Annual Meetinc; Held January 25, 1S99. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents, adopted Jan- 

 iiarv 8, 1890, l)y 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 {Mr. Chief Justice Fuller) in the chair; 

 the Hon. S. M. CuUom, the Hon. George Gray, the Hon. O. H. Piatt, 

 the Hon. R. R. Hitt, the Hon. John B. Henderson, Dr. William L. 

 Wilson, Dr. James B. Angell, Dr. A. Graham Bell, and the Secretary, 

 Mr. S. P. Langley. 



Excuses for nonattendance on account of illness were received from 

 the Vice-President and Mr. Adams. 



At the Chancellor's suggestion the Secretary read the minutes of the 

 last meeting in abstract (explaining, in reference to the Board's author- 

 ity to use a portion of the Hodgkins fund in his aerodynamic experi- 

 ments, that he had not used such permission). 



There being no ol)jection, the Chancellor det-lared the miiuites 

 approved. 



The Secretary announced the death of Senator Justin Smith Mor- 

 rill, and Dr. Wilson offered the following resolutions: 



AVhereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are called upon to 

 mourn the death, on December 28, 1898, of Justin Smith Morrill, for fifteen years a 

 member of the Board, and to some members of it a still older colleague in the Senate 

 of the United States: 



Resolved, That the Board desire to place on record the expression of their sense of 

 the exceptional loss they have sustained in the deatli of their venerable colleague; 

 and that they unite with their fellow-citizens throughout the land in recognizing the 

 great services of Senator 3Iorrill to the whole country during a public career of forty- 

 three years in Congress, where, amid other great national services, his public life in 

 the special domain of education alone was the most important of that of any single 

 American. With all these duties his time, his ripened knowledge of practical affairs, 

 and his counsel were always at the service of the Smithsonian Institution, where no 

 member of this Board represented its interests in Congress more persistently or more 

 effectually than he. 



Ri'solred, That by his personal character, no less than by his mental endowments, 

 he endeared himself to all his associates on this Board, who feel that they have lost 

 in him, not only a counselor and adviser, l)ut a dear and htmored friend; and that. 



