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Mr. Antisell suggested that instead of a rise of the monntain 

 there was a less degree of subsidence on the one side than on 

 the other. 



Special Meeting. May 14, 18T8, 



Yice-President Hilgard in the Chair. 



Forty-five members present, 



• The meeting had been called by Yice-President Hilgard, who 

 with preliminary remarks announced that it was for the purpose 

 of taking action on the occasion of the death of Professor Joseph 

 Henry, President of the Society. 



The Secretary of the meeting read a communication from Chief 

 Justice M. R. Waite, Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 announcing the death of Professor Joseph Henry, the Secretary 

 and Director of the Institution, in this city on Monday, May 

 13th, at 12.10 P. M., and inviting the Philosophical Society of 

 Washington to attend his funeral on Thursday at half-past four 

 o'clock in the afternoon. 



On motion of Mr. W. B. Taylor, a committee, consisting of 

 Messrs. W. B. Taylor, Welling, and Gill, was appointed ta 

 prepare appropriate resolutions. 



Remarks on the character and labors of the deceased were 

 made by Messrs. Hilgard, Johnson, Toner, Alvord, Abbe,^ 

 Mason, Gallaudet, and George Taylor. 



The Committee reported the following resolutions, which wero' 

 unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That in the death of Professor Joseph Henry the 

 Philosophical Society of Washington is called to deplore the loss 

 of its venerable and beloved president, who from its first institu- 

 tion, and subsequently from year to year, has been unanimously 

 chosen to the position he filled among us, in deference not only 



