ABSTRACT OF MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-THIRD MEETING OF 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



The meeting was held in Washington in the Board Room of the 

 Administration Building, on Friday, December 15, 1922, and was called 

 to order at 10 a. m. by the Chairman, Mr. Root. 



Upon roll-call the following Trustees responded: Robert S. Brook- 

 ings, John J. Carty, W. Cameron Forbes, Charles L. Hutchinson, 

 Henry Cabot Lodge, Andrew J. Montague, James Parmelee, Wm. 

 Barclay Parsons, Stewart Paton, Henry S. Pritchett, Elihu Root, 

 Martin A. Ryerson, Charles D. Walcott, William H. Welch, Henry 

 White, George W. Wickersham. The President of the Institution, 

 John C. Merriam, was also present. 



The minutes of the twenty-second meeting were approved as printed 

 and submitted to the members of the Board. 



Reports of the President, the Executive Committee, the Auditor, 

 the Finance Committee, the Auditing Committee, and of Directors of 

 Departments, Associates, and Research Associates of the Institution 

 were presented and considered. 



The following appropriations for the year 1923 were authorized: 



Insurance Fund $9 , 500 



Pension Fund 40,000 



Administration 63 , 500 



Publication (including Division of Publications) 92,500 



Departments and Divisions of Research 927 , 662 



Associates of Institution 18, 600 



Minor Grants 150,385 



Index Medicus 17,500 



General Contingent Fund 45 , 000 



Total $1,364,647 



The Board expressed by resolution its appreciation of the cooperation 

 of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in appropriating funds on 

 condition that they be expended by the Institution for a study of the 

 origin and effects of the recent earthquake in Chile. 



The resignations of Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge as Secretary of the 

 Board and as a member of the Executive Committee and of the 



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