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Washington, D. C.,May I',, 1878. 



On behalf of the Regent* of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 it becomes in,'/ mournful duty to announce the death of the 

 Secretory and Director of the Institution, 



JOSEPH HENRY, LL. D., 

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

 o'clock p. m. 



Professor ^Citrv was born in Albany, in the State of New 

 1 'ork, December 17th, 1700. 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 

 tin Smithsonian Institution in lS' r H. 



lie received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laics from 

 Union College in 1820; and from Harvard University in 



1831. 



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