MINUTES OF THIRD MEETING OF BOARD OF 



TRUSTEES 



[Abstract] 



The meeting was held in Washington, at the New Willard Hotel, 

 on Tuesday, December 8, 1903, at 10 A. m. 



The Vice Chairman, Mr. Billings, occupied the chair. 

 The Secretary called the roll, and the following Trustees re- 

 sponded to their names : 



J. G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives 

 Alexander Agassiz, President of the National Academy of 

 Sciences 



John S. Billings William Eindsay 



William N. Frew Wayne MacVeagh 



Lyman J. Gage D. O. Mills 



Daniel C. Oilman S. Weir Mitchell 



Henry E. Higginson William W. Morrow 



E. A. Hitchcock Elihu Root 



Charles E. Hutchinson Charles D. Walcott 



Carroll D. Wright 



Absent : 



The President of the United States 



Wm. p. Frye, President of the Senate 



S. P. EanglEy, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 



John Hay John C. Spooner 



Seth Eow Andrew D. White 



Letters were received from Messrs. Frye, Hay, Low, Spooner, 

 and W^hite, regretting their inability to be present at the meeting. 



The minutes of the second meeting were read and approved. 



A resolution inviting Mr. Carnegie to attend the meeting was 

 unanimously adopted, and in accordance therewith an invitation 

 was sent to Mr, Carnegie, and a few minutes later he entered and 

 remained during the session. 



The Chairman announced the death of Mr. Abram S. Hewitt and 

 Mr. William E. Dodge. Mr. Mills presented the following minute 



