REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CARNEGIE 

 INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



In compliance with Article IV of the By-laws of the Carnegie Institution 



of Washington, I have the honor to submit the following report on the 



present status of the interests of the Institution and on the 



Explanatory State- events and work thereof for the fiscal year ending October 

 ment. . . . . . 



31, 1909, along with recommendations of appropriations 



for the ensuing year and with sundry suggestions and recommendations con- 

 cerning other questions which have been under consideration during the past 

 year. 



This report is the eighth annual report of the Institution and is presented 

 under the following principal heads : 



1. Work of administration. 



2. Resume of investigations of the year. 



3. Publications. 



4. Recommendations of budget for the year 1910. 



5. Additional suggestions. 



The Institution has lost heavily during the year by deth. Four Trustees, 

 Carroll Davidson Wright, William Wirt Howe, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, and 



William Lindsay, along with our eminent Research Asso- 

 Dcth Losses of the ciate, Professor Simon Newcomb, constitute a noteworthy 



list of men distinguisht alike for conspicuous public serv- 

 ice and for enlightend devotion to the advancement of research and dis- 

 covery. In accordance with a custom already well establisht, biografys of 

 deceast Trustees are publisht elsewhere in the Year Book, so that further 

 mention of their lives and work need not be made here. It seems fitting, 

 however, in this administrativ report, to recall especially the faithful services 

 renderd by Dr. Wright, who was from the foundation of the Institution a 

 member of the Executiv Committee and its Chairman from December, 1904, 

 to December, 1908. Rarely absent from meetings, always courteous, patient, 

 and helpful, he renderd great aid in forwarding the complex volume of busi- 

 ness considerd and disposd of during these years of formativ activity. 



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