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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., January 18, 1882.

The annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution was held this day at 10 o'clock a.m., in the Regent's room.

Present: The Chancellor - Chief Justice Waite, Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, Hon. N. P. Hill, Hon. S.B. Maxey, Hon. N.C. Deering, Hon. E.B. Taylor, Hon. S.S. Cox, Rev. Dr. John Maclean, Hon. Peter Parker, Dr. Asa Gray, Dr. Henry Coppée, General Wm. T. Sherman, Dr. Noah Porter, and the Secretary, Prof. S. F. Baird.

The Chancellor made the following announcement relative to the appointment of members of the Board: 

On the 21st of February, 1881, the Vice-President (Mr. WHEELER) appointed Hon. G. F. HOAR as Regent, vice Hon. H. Hamlin, resigned. 

On the 19th of May, 1881, the Vice-President (Mr. ARTHUR) appointed Hon. S. B. MAXEY, of Texas, and Hon. N. P. HILL, of Colorado, Regents, vice Hon. R. E. Withers and Hon. N. Booth, whose terms had expired.

On the 9th of January, 1882, the Speaker of the House (Mr. Keifer) appointed, as Regents for the term of the 47th Congress, Hon. N. C. DEERING, of Iowa, Hon. E. B. TAYLOR, of Ohio, and Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York.

The Chancellor called the attention of the Board to the death of President GARFIELD, ex officio presiding officer of the Institution, and for many years one of its Regents. 

On motion of Dr. Gray it was - 

Resolved, That the Chancellor be requested to enter upon the record an expression of the sense of great loss which the Institution has sustained by the death of one of its most devoted and distinguished administrators.
 
In compliance with the foregoing resolution, the Chancellor presented the following memorial notice:
 
General Garfield first took his seat in Congress at the end of the year 1863. He was then but thirty-six years old.
 
At the beginning of his second term he was appointed a member of this Board by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and was present at the meeting of February 3, 1866. He continued to hold the 

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