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est in service were : Representative Samuel S. Cox, from 

 1861 to 1865, from 1870 to 1875, from 1882 to 1883, a"'^ 

 again from 1888 to 1889; Senator James A. Pearce, from 

 1847 to 1862; Representative James A. Garfield, from 1865 

 to 1873, ^'^'^ from 1878 to 1880; Senator James M. Mason, 

 from 1849 to 1861 ; and Senator Justin S. Morrill, from 1883 

 to the present. 



The chairmanship of the Executive Committee was held 

 by Mayor Seaton from 1846 to 1849, by General Totten in 

 1850 and again in 1862, by Professor Bache in 1851 and 

 again in 1863, by Senator Pearce from 1852 to 1861, by 

 Mayor Wallach in 1864 and 1865, by General Delafield from 

 1866 to 1870, by Doctor Parker from 1871 to 1883, by Pro- 

 fessor Maclean from 1884 to 1885, by President Welling 

 from 1886 to 1893, by President Coppee in 1894, and by ex- 

 Senator Henderson in 1895 and 1896. 



Upon the rolls of this committee also appear the names of 

 Robert Dale Owen, General William T. Sherman, Honorable 

 George Bancroft, General Montgomery C. Meigs, Honorable 

 Gardiner G. Hubbard, and Honorable William L. Wilson. 



Among this company of distinguished men, including many 

 of the Americans most eminent in their day, there have been 

 some who had opportunities to identify themselves more ac- 

 tively than others with the work. It would, perhaps, not be 

 proper, or indeed possible, to make particular mention of any 

 of these but for the fact that the Regents themselves have 

 from time to time recorded in their Journal of Proceedings 

 special words of commendation and appreciation of such of 

 their associates as they considered to have rendered extraor- 

 dinary services. 



On the occasion of the death of Richard Rush, at the meet- 

 ing of the Board on January 28, i860, Senator Pearce, after 

 alluding to the very important services rendered by him in 



