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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

Washington, January 11, 1888.

The stated annual meeting of the Board of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution was held this day at 10:30 o'clock A.M.

Present: Chief-Justice M. R. WAITE, Chancellor of the Institution, Hon. S. S. Cox, Hon W. W. Phelps, Hon. JOSEPH WHEELER, Dr. HENRY COPPÉE, Dr. J. B. ANGELL, Dr. J. C. WHELLING, General M. C. MEIGS., and the Secretary, Professor LANGLEY.

Excuses for non-attendance were read from Dr. NOAH PORTER and Senator J. S. MORRILL. The Secretary made a statement that the absence of Dr. ASA GRAY was caused by severe illness. 

The journal of the proceedings of the Board at the meetings on January 12 and November 18, 1887, was read and approved. 

The Secretary stated that in accordance with the instructions of the Board at the last meeting, he had again consulted with the widow of the late Professor BAIRD, and ascertained that while she desired to defer to the wishes of the Regents, her own preference would be that the interment of the remains of her husband should be strictly private. It was necessary therefore to depart from the arrangements which had been contemplated at the last meeting of the Board, and by the advice of the Executive Committee, a meeting of the Board of Regents was not called as had been anticipated in December, and the stated annual meeting is therefore now held at the regular time, as provided by the regulations of the Board of Regents. 

The Chancellor announced the appointment by the President of the Senate, on December 19, 1887, of Hon. Randall L. Gibson, of Louisiana, as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, vice Senator Maxey, whose term had expired. 

The Chancellor also announced the appointment by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on January 5, 1888, of Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, as regent, vice Hon. O. R. Singleton, who had not been re-elected to Congress; and on the 10th of January, of Hon. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, vice Hon. W. L. Wilson, and the re-appointment of Hon. W. W. Phelps, of New Jersey. 

Dr. Welling, chairman of the Executive Committee, presented its annual report for the year ending June 30, 1887. 

Dr. Welling, in presenting the report, called attention to a paragraph on the third page, relative to the appropriation for "ethnological re-

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