At a meeting of the Executive Oonsnittee of the Board of Re- 
gents of the Smithsonian Institution, Nov. 3rd., 1887, the follow- 
ing Preamble smd resolution were adopted. 
TShereas - 35ie death of Proflessor Baird, the honored 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution^ occurred at a time in the 
last surrmer ifeen from the absence of certain Regents in Europe, and 
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from the dispersion of others in different parts of the countrji^it 
was found impracticable to surmnon the Board of Regents in extra- 
ordinary session, that it might take appropriate action in the 
premises under the immediate pressure of that deplorable event, and 
Httiereas - ?he time has now come when such an extraordi- 
nary meeting is practicable, and is believed to be required alike 
by the proprieties and by the possible exigencies of the situation 
resulting from the lamented death of the late Secretary, therefore 
be it 
RESOLVED, Ihat the Acting Secretary of the Institution be 
requested to call a special meeting of the Board of Regents to be 
held on Friday, November 18th. at 10.30 A.M. 
James C. Welling 
Henry Copp^e 
M« C. Meigs 
