xxii CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 



A proposed code of By Laws was then presented, discussed, 

 amended, and adopted. This code, as still further amended at the 

 meeting of November 25, 1902, is printed on pages ix-x. 



Election of officers, in accordance with the By Laws just adopted, 

 was then held with the following result : 



Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Abram S. Hewitt. 



Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, John S. Billings. 



Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Charles D. Walcott. 



President of Carnegie Institution, Daniel C. Oilman. 



At the second session of the Board, held on January 30, 1902, the 

 following members were 



Present : 



Wm. p. Frye, President of the Senate. 



S. P. Langley, vSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



John S. Bili^ings. William Lindsay. 



William N. Frew. Wayne MacVeagh. 



Lyman J. Gage. S. Weir Mitchell. 



Daniel C. Oilman. William W. Morrow. 



Abram S. Hewitt. Elihu Root. 



Henry L. Higginson. Charles D. Walcott. 



Henry Hitchcock. Edward D. White. 



C. L. Hutchinson. Carroll D. Wright. 



Absent : 

 The President of the United States. 

 D. B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

 Alex. Agassiz, President of the National Academy of Sciences. 

 William E. Dodge. D. O. Mills. 



Seth Low. John C. Spooner. 



Andrew D. White. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 

 Relative to the acceptance of the Trust created by Mr. Carnegie, 

 it was — 



Resolved: That the Board of Trustees, acknowledging the gen- 

 erosity of the gift of Mr. Carnegie, in the foundation of the Insti- 

 tution, desire to express the concurrence of the Trustees in the scope 

 and purpose stated in his deed of trust, and herelw formally accept 

 the donation and the responsibilities connected with it. 



It was also voted that the resolution ju.st adopted be forwarded to 



