4 INTRODUCTION. 



In the Senate. 



Tuesday, January 28, 1879. 



The Vice-President laid before the Senate the following con- 

 current resolution from the House of Representatives; which was 

 read and referred to the Committee on Printing : [the resolution to 

 print, as before given.] 



Tl^ursday, February 6, 1879. 



Mr. Anthony. (Senator from Rhode Island.) " I am instructed 

 by the Committee on Printing, to whom was referred a concurrent 

 resolution of the House of Representatives to print the Memorial 

 Exercises in honor of the late Professor Henry, to report it without 

 amendment, and to recommend its passage. I ask for its present 

 consideration." 



The resolution was considered by unanimous consent and agreed 

 to, as follows : 



" Resolved by the House of Representatives, {the Senate concurring,) 

 That the memorial exercises in honor of Professor Henry, held in 

 the Hall of the House of Representatives on the 16th of January, 

 1879, be printed in the Congressional Record, and that fifteen 

 thousand extra copies of the same be printed in a Memorial Vol- 

 ume, together with such articles as may be furnished by the Board 

 of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ; seven thousand copies 

 of which shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, three 

 thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and five thousand copies 

 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution." 



In the Senate, April 7, 1879. — Mr. Anthony, by unanimous 

 consent, introduced a joint resolution authorizing the engraving and 

 printing of a portrait of the late Joseph Henry, to accompany 

 the Memorial Volume heretofore ordered, and appropriating five 

 hundred dollars for that purpose. 



The joint resolution was reported to the Senate April 9, 1879, 

 ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and 

 passed. 



In the House of Representatives, April 11, 1879. — Mr. 

 Clymer moved to take from the table the joint resolution received 

 from the Senate ; which was accordingly read three times and passed. 



The joint resolution authorizing the engraving and printing of 

 the portrait for the Memorial Volume, as passed by Congress, was 

 approved by the President April 18, 1879. 



