Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, January 11, 1888.

At a meeting
of the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution held
this day, the following preamble
and resolutions were adopted:

Whereas the Board
has received the afflictive intelligence
that the venerable Dr Peter Parker,
who for sixteen years was a member
of the Board of Regents, and who
for this whole period served with fidelity
on its Executive Committee,
has departed this life after a long career
filled with useful labors in the
service of God and of man; therefore
be it

Resolved: That in

a less conscientious sense of public
duty he might have claimed an ex-
emption from the tasks of life.

Resolved: that
since the retirement of our depart-
ed colleague from the membership
of this Board, we have continued
to follow him with the grateful
recollections inspired by the associ-
ation of this council-chamber, as
well as with a reverent respect for
the Christian patience with which
he bore the infirmities of advancing
age and the unfaltering Christian
hope with which he awaited "the
inevitable hour" in full assurance
of immortality.

Resolved: That
these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of the Board, and that the