Washington, D. C., May 14, 1878. 



On behalf of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 it becomes my mournful duty to announce the death of the 

 Secretary and Director of the Institution, 



JOSEPH HENRY, LL. D., 



which occurred in this city on Monday, May 13th, at 12.10 

 o'clock p. TYI. 



Professor jetirg was born in Albany, in the State of New 

 York, December 17th, 1799. He became Professor of Mathe- 

 matics in the Albany Academy in 1826 ; Professor of Nat- 

 ural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, 

 in 1832; and was elected the first Secretary and Director of 

 the Smithsonian Institution in 18^.6. 



He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from 

 Union College in 1829 ; and from Harvard University in 



1851. 



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