XTI JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



Resolved, That these resolutions he recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of 

 the Board, and that the Secretary be requested to send a copy of them to the family 

 of their departed associate and friend, in token of sympathy in this common 

 affliction. 



Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to prepare a eulogy of President Welling 

 for insertion in the Journal of the Board of Regents. 



Dr. Coppee said that lie had been longer associated with Dr .Welling 

 than any other member of the Board, since 1884, and particularly as a 

 member of the Executive Committee with him, and as he had for Dr. 

 Welling a very high esteem, he thought it proper to say a word in this 

 connection. Dr. Welling was one of the most valuable citizens of 

 Washington, to whom was confided many trusts, among them the 

 presidency of the Columbian University, and the chairmanship of the 

 Executive Committee of this Institution, and he did well everything 

 that was confided to him. He was a man pure in thought, honest in 

 purpose and action, and intelligent in judgment. He held a ready pen, 

 and how polished his public utterances were, all here would remember 

 who had heard him when he presented papers and other matters before 

 this Board. 



Dr. Coppee added that Dr. Welling was cautioned by his friends that 

 he worked too hard, and instanced the fact that at the last meeting 

 which he attended, in May, he announced his purpose to write a work 

 with reference to his favorite subject of anthropology, when Senator 

 Henderson, now present, said to him: " The best thing that you can do 

 is to consider one individual of the species of ' anthropos,' and very care- 

 fully, at this time. You are the ' man ; ' take care of yourself." It was 

 a grave pleasantry. It was good counsel, but it came too late, for Dr. 

 Welling was injured by the hard work that he did. In him is lost 

 a man who was preeminently excellent in counsel, whether to the 

 Board or in private, but he would leave it to the Secretary to speak of 

 him further. 



Senator Henderson spoke of his long and intimate acquaintance with 

 Dr. Welling and expressed his admiration for him as a citizen and as 

 an officer of the Institution. 



The Secretary then said : 



I have lost in Dr. Welling a personal friend, but I only have to speak of him now 

 in his relationship to this Institution — an institution whose conservative character 

 has been partly due to good fortune in the presence and advice of such men. 



Dr. Welling was one who possessed, beyond anyone else, what may be called the 

 traditions of the Institution; and though these were not of course his exclusive 

 property, in this respect, as in others, his loss can not be supplied. 



The rules of conduct which have been laid down by the Regents and by the Sec- 

 retaries who have administered them are not so much derived from a priori views 

 as they are the outgrowth of accumulated experience; and this experience, it has 

 been thought, is in part, perhaps, due to the exceptionally long incumbencies of 

 members of the Board as compared with ordinary tenures of office here, and to 

 the continuity of the knowledge of its activities, as illustrated in the case of this 

 departed friend. 



James Clark Welling, at the time of his death, September 4, 1894, was nearly 70 

 years of age. Descended from New England colonial ancestors, a native of one of 



