proceedings op regents. 31 



Washington, D.C, January 16, 1879. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents was held this day at half 

 past seven o'clock p. M., in the room of the Speaker of the Plouse 

 of Representatives, and at eight o'clock the Regents proceeded in a 

 body to the Hall of the House of Representatives, to attend the 

 public exercises in honor of Professor JosEPii Henry, late Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



On the day after that on which the Memorial Services were held 

 in the Capitol, the following action was taken by the Board of 

 Regents, with reference to the preparation of a Memorial Volume, 

 in commemoration of Professor Joseph Henry. 



Washington, D.C, January 17, 1879. 



A meeting of the Board of Regents was held this day in the 

 Regent's room at half past nine o'clock A. m. 



Present: The Chancellor, Chief Justice Waite, Hon. Aaron 

 A. Sargent, Hon. Robert E. Withers, Hon. James A. 

 Garfield, Hon. Hiester Clymer, Hon. Peter Parker, Rev. 

 Dr. John Maclean, Prof. Asa Gray, Professor Henry Coppf^E, 

 President Noah Porter, General William T. Sherman, and 

 the Secretary, Professor Spencer F. Baird. 



The subject of the publication of tiie eulogies on Professor 

 Henry, together with an account of his scientific writings, &c., 

 was discussed, and on motion of Dr. Maclean, it was 



Resolved, That a special committee of three be appointed, of 

 which the Secretary of the Institution shall be one, to prepare a 

 memorial of Professor Henry, to include in a separate volume of 

 the Smithsonian series such biographies and notices of the late 

 Secretary of the Institution as may be considered by them worthy 

 of preservation and publication. 



