MEMORIAL EXERCISES 



IN HONOR OP 



JOSEPH HE^BY. 



HELD IN THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



On Thursday Evening, January 16, 1879. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



PUBLIC COMMEMORATION IN HONOR OF THE LATE JOSEPH HENRY. 



The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, on the 

 17th of May, 1878, passed a resolution requesting the executive 

 committee to make arrangements for a public commemoration in 

 honor of the late Secretary of the Institution, of such character and 

 at such time and place as they might determine. 



The committee has now the satisfaction of announcing that in 

 conformity with the above action the following concurrent resolu- 

 tion was unanimously adopted by both Houses of Congress on the 

 9th and 10th of December, 1878: 



Besolved, That the Congress of the United States will take part 

 in the services to be observed on Thursday evening, January 16, 

 1879, in honor of the memory of JOSEPH HENRY, late secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, under the auspices of the Regents 

 thereof, and for that purpose the Senators and Members will assem- 

 ble on that evening in the Hall of the House of Representatives, 

 the Vice-President of the United States, supported by the Speaker 



of the House, to preside on that occasion. 



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