Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-27
AN ANNUAL MEETING
The Regents Of the Smith
sonian Institution.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
TOTAL FUND NOW ABOUT ONE
MILLION DOLLARS.
Plans for New Building for National
Museum Practically Finished-Re-
suits of Interest Reached.

The annual meeting of the board of re-
gents of the Smithsonian institution was
held at the institution at 10 o'clock this
morning. OF the members of the board
| those present were: Mr.. Chief Justice
Fuller. the chancellor of the institution.
| who presided; Senator s. M. Cullom, Sen
| ator O. II. Plat. Senator F. NJ. Cockrell,
Representative r. r. Hit, Representative
! Robert Adams, jr.; Representative Hugh
A. Dnsmore, ex-Sena tor John b. Hender-
| son. DR.. A. Graham Bell, DIR. James b.
Angel. ex-Secretary of State Richard Olney
| and the secretary of the institution, Mr.. s.
| p Langley.
| Senator William p. Frye. president pro
| tempore of the Senate; Judge George Gray
! and Dr. Andrew d. White were unable to
| be present.
| 1t was announced that Representatives
| HIT Adams and Dinsmore had been re-
appointed regents on the part of the House
| for term of two years, and that Mr.. John
| E. Henderson and Prof. A. Graham Bell
| haG been elected regents from the District
! OF Columbia for a period of six years.
Secretary's Annual Report.
| The secretary presented his annual
port reviewing the work Of the year end
| ing June 80, 1908. The total permanent
| fund now stands at S937GsS, deposited in
| the treasury. Certain railroad bonds form
| ing ii part of the Hodgkins fund make the
| total fund Of the institution about $1,000
| coo
| The institution in addition charged
with the disbursement of congressional APP
| preparation for the United States Nation
| al Museum, the bureau of American eth
nology, the international exchanges, the
| astrophysical observatory and the Nation
| al Geological Park, amounting in all to
s472, 400.
| Under the Hodgsins fund a memoir has
hxrV
| Structure of the Nucleus, and grants have
been made to Prof NJ. w. Travers Of Uni
| versity College, London. for researches on
the tainment of very low temperatures;
| to DR.. Victor Schumann of Leipsic for
work on vacuum spectroscopy, and to Prof
E. w Scripture of Yale University for the
construction of vowel machine"
The subscription to the Smithsonian ia
Bile at Naples geological station has been
renewed. During the year this table was
occupied by eight American BIOLOGISTS al
of whom conducted special researches or
In the series of contributions to Knowl-
edge" two valuable publications have been
issued, those of DR.. Barus and DE- Schu-
mann, while a memoir by DR.. Frederick w.
True entitled THE Whalebone Whales of
the Western North Atlantic, Compared with
Those Occurring in European Waters, with
Some Observations on the species OF the
North Pacific and work by Prof. n. s.
| Shaler of Harvard University entitled "a
Comparison of the Features of the Earth
and the Moon are in course of publica-
ton number of papers have been issued
in the series of miscellaneous Collections"
and a work by the late DR.. G. Brown
| Goode What Has been Done in America
for Science" is now being prepared for
| the press.
The usual reports have been issued and
greatly sought after. The library has receiv-
| ed valuable additions from Gen. John Watts
! De Peyster, in Napoleonana, and on gyp-
| sizes The museum library has received two
| important gifts being the E. A. Schwartz
| collection of books on American coleoptera
| and the w. Fl. Dali collection of books on
| recent and fossil mollusks
The institution has taken over for Amer
| lea the work of the International Cata-
| logue of Scientific Literature