PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



Washington, D. C, May 17, 1878. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion was held this day at ten o'clock A. M. 



Present: TheChancellor, Chief Justice Waite, Hon. Hannibal 

 Hamlin, Hon. Aaron A. Sargent, Hon. Robert E. Withers, 

 Hon. HiESTER Clymer, Hon. James A. Garfield, Rev. Dr. 

 John Maclean, Hon. Peter Parker, Dr. Asa Gray, General 

 William T. Sherman, President Noah Porter. 



General Garfield was requested to act as Secretary. 



At the request of the Chancellor, a prayer was offered by Rev. 

 Dr. Maclean for Divine guidance of the Regents in their present 

 deliberations. 



The following resolutions were then adopted : 



1. Resolved, That the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 hereby express their profound sorrow at the death of Professor 

 Joseph Henry, late Secretary of this Institution, and tender to 

 the family of the deceased their sympathy for their great and 

 irreparable loss. 



2. Resolved, That in consideration of the long-continued, faithful, 



and unselfish services of Joseph Henry, our late Secretary, there 



be paid to his widow the same sum to which he would have been 



entitled, as salary, for the remainder of this year, and that the 



Secretary be directed to make payment to her for the amount 



thereof monthly. 



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