JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Annual Meeting of the Board of Regents. 



January 23, 1895. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents, adopted 

 January 8, 1890, by which its stated annual meeting occurs on the fourth 

 Wednesday in January, the Board met to-day at 10 o'clock a. m. 



Present: The Chancellor (the Hon. M. W. Fuller) in the chair, the 

 Hon. J. S. Morrill, the Hon. George Gray, the Hon. Joseph Wheeler, 

 the Hon. R. R. Hitt, Dr. Henry Coppee, the Hon. J. B. Henderson, 

 and the Secretary, Mr. S. P. Langley. 



Excuses for nonattendance were read from Dr. William. Preston 

 Johnston, on account of illness ; from the Hon. S. M. Cullom, on account 

 of a domestic affliction, and from Dr. Andrew D. White, on account of 

 absence in Europe. 



At the Chancellor's suggestion, the Secretary read in abstract the 

 minutes of the last meeting, which were approved. 



The Secretary stated that the term of Dr. Andrew D. White as 

 Regent of the Institution having expired on February 15, 1894, he was 

 reappointed by joint resolution of Congress, approved by the President 

 March 19, 1894. 



The Secretary announced the death, on September 4, 1894, of Dr. 

 Welling, chairman of the Executive Committee. 



On motion, the Chancellor appointed Senator Henderson and the 

 Secretary a committee to prepare suitable resolutions expressing the 

 Board's sense of loss, and the committee presented the following: 



Whereas the members of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 have been called upon to moxirn the death of their esteemed colleague, the late 

 James C. Welling, LL. D., president of the Columbian University, who has long 

 been interested in the welfare of the Institution, and who for many years has been 

 a Regent and chairman of its Executive Committee, 



Iiesolved, That the Board of Regents feels deep regret in the loss of one whose 

 long and distinguished career of public usefulness, especially in the promotion of 

 institutions for higher education, commanded their respect, and whose personal 

 character and unselfish devotion to the highest ideals of scholarship and citizen- 

 ship, their sincere admiration. 



Iiesolved, That in the death of President Welling the Smithsonian Institution has 

 suffered the irreparable loss of an earnest friend, a wise and judicious counselor, 

 and one who was preeminently an exponent of its time-honored policy; and the 

 Board of Regents a friend and associate whom they valued most highly. 



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