PROCEEDINGS 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



Special Meeting. May 14, 1878. 



Vice-President HlLGARD in some preliminary remarks on the 

 death of Professor Joseph Henry, President of the Society, 

 stated that he had called a special meeting of the members, for the 

 purpose of taking some appropriate action on this solemn and 

 mournful occasion. 



The Secretary read a communication from Chief-Justice M. R. 

 WAITE, * 'lianeellor of the Smithsonian institution, announcing the 

 death ut' Professor Joseph Henry, the Secretary and Director of 

 the Institution, in this city, on Monday, May 13, at ten minutes past 



n i, and inviting the Philosophical Society of Washington to 



attend his funeral on Thursday next, May ]li, at half-past four 

 o'clock P. M. 



On motion, a committee of three (Messrs. Welling, W. B. 

 Taylor, anil Gill) was appointed to prepare suitable resolution--. 



Remarks on the character and labors of the deceased were made 

 by Messrs. Hilgard, Johnson, Toner, Alvord, Abbe, Mason, 

 Parker, Gallaudet, and George Taylor. 



The special committee reported the following resolutions, which 

 were unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That in the death of Professor Joseph Henry the 

 Philosophical Society of Washington is called to deplore the loss of 

 its venerable and beloved President, who from its first institution, 

 and subsequently from year to year, has been unanimously chosen 

 to the position lie tilled among us, in deference not only to the 

 exalted fame which made him the chief ornament of our associ- 

 ation, hut in grateful tribute as well to the varied philosophical 

 learning, the calm even-balanced judgment, and the serene wisdom 



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