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the erection of the monument, and that the pursers of the Expedition 
be authorized to charge the said sum to the officers and scientific corps 
in proportion to the rate of their several salaries. 
The subject of an inscription was referred to a future meeting, and 
the committee was instructed to select a model from the designs which 
they might hereafter receive. The meeting then adjourned. 
(Front.) 
TO 
THE MEMORY OF 
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH A. UNDERWOOD, 
AND 
MIDSHIPMAN WILKES HENRY, 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 
(Rear.) 
LIEUTENANT UNDERWOOD, 
AND 
MIDSHIPMAN HENRY, 
FELL BY THE HANDS OF SAVAGES, 
WHILE PROMOTING 
THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE AND PHILANTHROPY, 
AT MALOLO, 
ONE OF THE FEEJEE GROUP OF ISLANDS, 
guLy 24, 1840. 
PASSED MIDSHIPMEN REID AND BACON 
WERE LOST AT SEA, OFF CAPE HORN, 
may, 1839. 
(Right.) 
THIS 
CENOTAPH 
IS ERECTED BY THEIR 
ASSOCIATES 
THE 
OFFICERS AND SCIENTIFIC CORPS, 
OF THE 
UNITED STATES 
EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 
(Left.) 
TO 
THE MEMORY 
OF 
PASSED MIDSHIPMEN 
JAMES W. E. REID, 
AND 
FREDERICK A. BACON, 
UNITED STATES NAVY. 
