PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



UNITED STATES LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD. 



OFFICE OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, 



Washington, May 15, 1878. 



[ Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Light-House 

 Board, held May 15, 1878.] 



The Naval Secretary read a letter from Chief Justice M. R. 

 WAITE, Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution, announcing the 

 death of Professor JOSEPH HENRY, and inviting the Light-House 

 Board to attend his funeral on Thursday afternoon at half-past 

 four o'clock. 



On motion, it was ordered that the Light-House Board accept 

 the invitation to attend the funeral, and that the Naval Secretary 

 be charged with making the necessary arrangements. 



The following resolutions submitted by the Naval Secretary were 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That in the death of Professor JOSEPH HENRY we 

 have lost an impartial Chairman, who has done so much to obtain 

 the harmonious co-operation of the several workers composing the 

 Board. 



Resolved, That we have lost in his death the head of our Com- 

 mittee on Experiments, in which position for more than a quarter 

 of a century he has by his patient, able, and successful investiga- 

 tions into the laws of light and sound, and by his fertile suggestions 

 as to their application, put the Light-House Service into the front 

 ranks of practical science. 



Resolved, That we sincerely deplore his death ; as thus we have 

 each one of us lost a personal friend who by his kindness of heart, 

 his honest frankness, his genial bearing, and his genuine sympathy, 

 has commanded our respect and won our affection. 



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