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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XV

appreciation in which this Board holds its departed associate than in any expectation that formal action can adequately express its sense of the great loss that we personally feel, and that this Institution has experienced, your committee submits the following resolutions:

Whereas the members of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have been called upon to mourn the death of their distinguished colleague, the late Dr. Asa Gray, who has been actively interested in the welfare of the Institution from its beginning, and who held for fifteen year the office of Regent, with great advantage to the Institution: Therefore, be it

Resolved, That with a high appreciation of Dr. Gray's most eminent labors in the development of all scientific truth, and especially in the great advancement and popularization of the study of botany; with a grateful sense of the service he has rendered to the Smithsonian Institution, and with reverence for his pure life, we record our admiration of the Christian character in which the truths of science were all seen in the same light that shone on a life of steadfast faith. 

Resolved, That we mourn not only the great investigator, the teacher and the associate, whose single mind found outward expression in a manner so well remembered in its simple and indefinable charm, but that above all we grieve for the loss of a friend.

Resolved, That this preamble and the resolutions resolutions be spread on the minutes of the Board in respectful tribute to the memory of our venerated colleague, and that a copy by transmitted to his family in token of the share we take in their bereavement.

The Secretary stated that having learned from the widow of Dr. Gray that she needed about eighty copies of the second part of the "Flora of North America," by her husband, which has been published by the Smithsonian Institute, to complete the sets in her possession and render them available, he had ventured in the name of the Regents to furnish these desired volumes, and had taken the occasion to express their continued interest in the result of the labors of their late colleague; for which Mrs. Gray had asked him to express her very sincere thanks.
 
The chairman announced the election by joint resolution of Congress, approved by the President February 15, 1888, of Dr. Andrew ^[[strikethrough]] B [[/strikethrough]] White, ^[[D.]] of the State of New York, as Regent for the term of six years, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Dr. Gray.

The chair then announced as the next business in order, the election of Chancellor.

On motion of Mr. Cox, Chief-Justice Melville W. Fuller was unanimously elected Chancellor of the Institution. 

Mr Fuller, in accepting the office, after thanking the members of the Board for the compliment, expressed his desire to promote the objects of the Institution, in whose welfare, he was well aware, the late chancellor, Chief-Justice Waite, had such great interest, and he earnestly hoped that he should be able to discharge his duties with as much fidelity and success. 

Dr. Welling, chairman of the Executive Committee, presented its annual report for the year ending June 30, 1888; which was read and accepted.