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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 1878.

A meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, at 8 o'clock p.m., under the following call:

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, May 13, 1878.

The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are requested to meet at the Smithsonian building at 8 o'clock this Monday evening, to make suitable arrangements for the obsequies of Prof. Joseph Henry, whose decease occurred at 12.10 o'clock this afternoon.

By order of-
M. R. WAITE, Chancellor.

Present, the Chancellor--Chief Justice Waite, Hon. H. Hamlin, Hon. A. A. Sargent, Hon. R.E. Withers. Hon. H. Clymer, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. Peter Parker, General W. T. Sherman.

The Chancellor made the following remarks:

MY BRETHREN OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS: I have asked you to come together this evening not to take action upon the great loss our Institution has sustained, but to consult as to what may best be done to pay honor to all that is mortal of the great and good man who, conceiving what Smithson willed, has devoted his life to making the bequest of our benefactor what he wished it to be, an instrument "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."
  
The Chancellor stated that he understood that the family of Professor Henry had expressed the wish that the Board of Regents should make all the arrangements for the funeral.

Several of the Regents expressed their opinion that this was not the appropriate time to eulogize the deceased, as another and full meeting of the Board should be called for that purpose.

The following resolutions were adopted:

Resolved, That the Chancellor be directed to notify the President of the United States and his Cabinet, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the two houses of Congress, the General of the Army, the Admiral of the Navy, the Diplomatic Corps, the Light-House Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington Philosophical Society, and other organizations with

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