Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
REGENTS OF SMITHSONIAN INSTI-
TUITION TO ASSEMBLE.
Services in Tribute to the Late Sec
rotary Langley to Be Held
This Evening.

The members of the board Of regents OF
the Smithsonian Institution have completed
arrangements for the holding Of a memorial
meeting in commemoraton Of the life and
services of Prof. Samuel P. Langley, who
was secretary of the institution from 1887
to 1906. The meeting will take place in
the lecture room of the United States Ma
| tional Museum this evening at S:15 O. clock
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller Of the
Supreme Court of the United States, who
| is the chancellor Of the institution, will de-
the meeting; Mr.. Andrew D. White will
speak on the Memorial" and will be fol-
lowed by Prof. c. E. Pickering, director of
| the harvard College observatory. who will
eulogize Prof. Langley for his contribu-
tlons to astronomy and astrophysics. Mr..
Octave Chanute of Chicago will be the last
| speaker of the evening. He will take as
| to aerodynamcs.
The annual meeting of the regents of the
institution will be held tomorrow and at
mat time 1t Is expected the members will
enter upon the consideration of questions
more important to the welfare of the in
stitution than any which they have had to
! zeal with IN many years past The seec
ton OF secretary to take the place of the
late Prof. Langley is foremost in point of
| importance 1t Is stated to be unlikely that
| any move toward filling the vacancy will
be made at the meeting tomorrow unless
opedNel cannon snail nave already deSig-
| aated as a regent a member of the House
| OF Representatives to fill the place left va
can't by the death of Representative Rob-
| ert r. Hit of Illinois. Just before the
| adjournment of Congress during the past
! summer, Representati- John Dalzell of
| PENNSYLVANIA was apr-.hted to the vacancy
| in the board of regents caused by the
! death of Representative Robert Adams, jr.,
of Philadelphia. Thus, this year there will
be two new members on the board
| The long dormant right of the Smith
! sonian Institution to be known as THE
| National Gallery of Art" has been sub
stantiated by a decision of the Supreme
| judicial Interpretation having been made a
matter of record, the institution has come
| into possession of the Harriet Lane john
ston collection of paintings and statuary
and including valuable historic aobjects
| when her uncle, President Buchanan &C.
| cupied the White House.
| The paintings in the. collection made by
| Miss Johnston will be ranged about the
| walls or the lecture room of the National
| Museum just previous to the meeting Of
the regents.
AS the museum is the treasure house of
| its memorabilia of the American warriors
and statesmen, whose material possessions
| In the way of public honors, presentat ton
| swords and gifts from. foreign rulers are
always interesting, the transfer of the
Johnston collection will be awaited with in
tereSt.
The paintings ranged from the east
! end of the hall in a single line to the
southwest corner. with two small paint
lnSs on the west wall The first one is the
oil portrait of the Prince of Wales, now
King Edward VII, as he appeared at the
| time of his visit to America in 1862 1t
| was painted by Sir Watson Gordon and pre-
sented to President Buchanan.