The morning times., 1897-01-28
IN THE PLACE OF DR.. GOODE
c. D. Walcott Temporarily In
stalled at the National Museum.
NO PERMANENT APPOINTMENT
Mr.. Wa1cOtt Had Declined Such, and
Only Consented to Act as Assistant
Secretary for Time-Chief JUS
tice Fuller's rt-Eulogies ON
the Lately Deceased Official.

The regents of the Smithsonian did not
complete their work at the annual meeting
begun yesterday morning. They viii re-
suIne the sess.o on Monday. Chief Justice
Fuller as chancellor occupied the chair.
Vice President Stevens on, Senators Morrill,,
Cnl!om and Gray, Representatives Wheeler,
Hit and Adams i Postmaster General VIII
son, DR.. j. B. Angen and A. d. White,
ex-senator John b. Henderson and Hon.
Gardiner q Ii ubbard Were the other mem
bcrs present.
They passed a refolutton that it would
rot be expedient or wise TO interfere with
the integrity of the National Museum by
lending for the decoration of the Library
building any of the articles or property
Eow in its care. This refers TO a pIOEosi-
ton for the cstablishm ent with the Library
of Congress at it's new building OF a great
art exhibit. 1t win probably cause dis
cuss.on when the annual appropriation for
the IN useum comes rp afain Ill Cor gress
After presenting his report, with the Of
ficial announcement that he had solved
the problem of aerial navigation by me-
chanical means, Secretary Langley an
nounced the death of the late DR.. q. Brown
Goode, assistant secretary. His report
contains several illusions eulogistic OF DR..
Goode, and DR.. Langley referred TO him
in feeling terms when he made the an
nouncement.
Regent White, who had known DR.. GOode
intimately when he was in charge OF the
American fisheries exhibition in Berlin,
offered a resolution that the board record
their sense of the devotion to duty which
in the late DR.. Goode came before any
consideration OF personal advancement, or
even before the care OF his own health,
and OF their recognition that his high
administrative ability and wide knowledge
were devoted unselfishly TO the service
OF the institution, with results whose value
they cannot too highly acknowledge; and
they desire to express their feelings of the
loss that the Institution, the National Mu-
scum, and the cause of science has sus-
tained in his untimely DEATH
Remarks We're made by Regents NORTH,
Wilson, and Hubbard, and the resolution
was passed
Chief Justice Fuller then set forth the
law under which appointments are made
by the secretary with the consent Of the
regents.
Secretary Langley remarked that in all
appointments the reco Gnition OF the plenary
power of the regents has been the founda-
tion of good government inthe Institution
and the occasion in the past appointments
which have been singularly free from any
imputatiOn of favoritlsm or partiaHty. This
authority acknowledged, good administra-
ton could hardly be promoted further than
,,f, -,
person as the late assistant secretary and
it was to be hoped that such appointments
would always be justified by the fact that
they could be given with his like entire
confidence. 1t is now more than ever
! desirable that the officer in charge OF
the Museum should be man OF wide eX-
perience in administrative affairs as we'll
as a man of high scientific attachments,
and high personal character, but owing
partly to a condition connected with the
civil service, which ne would enter upon
later, he had found it difficult to present
name to the regents. The secretary
then read to the regents list of gentle
men whose names had been proposed to
him, inviting any inquiry on their part
which he could answer.
He stated that he had as vet in mind
one person who seemed to unite the desired
qualities and that he had offered only to
this gentleman-Mr. c. d. WalCott an
honorary curator in the Museum for many
years and now director of the United States
Geological Survey. to bring his name be-
fore the regents. Mr.. WalcCtt, however,
| after giving him hope for favorable re-
sponse had felt obliged to decline.
He was, however. authorized by Mr..
Walcott to say that he would give his vol
untary aid in the temporary charge Of the
Museum and the secretary asked and re-
| ceived permission by the unanimous vote
| of the regents to appoint Mr.. Walcott as
acting assistant secretary with the under
standing that his duties would be ex-
| cIuSively confined to the charge of the
Museum