REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



To the Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: 



Gentlemen : Article V, Section 3, of the By-Laws provides that 

 the Executive Committee shall submit, at the annual meeting of the 

 Board of Trustees, a report for publication, and Article VI, Section 

 3, provides that the Executive Committee shall also submit, at the 

 same time, a full statement of the finances and work of the Institu- 

 tion and a detailed estimate of the expenditures for the succeeding 

 year. In accordance with these provisions, the Executive Commit- 

 tee herewith respectfully submits its report for the year 1912-1913. 



During the fiscal year ending October 31, 1913, the Executive 

 Committee held nine meetings. Printed reports of these meetings 

 have been sent to the Trustees of the Institution. 



Upon the adjournment of the Board of Trustees on December 13, 

 1912, the members of the Executive Committee met and organized 

 by the election of Mr. Welch as Chairman for 1913, and by voting 

 that the Assistant Secretary of the Institution act as Secretary of the 

 Committee for the same period. 



It becomes the duty of the Executive Committee to report the 

 death, on March 11, 1913, of John Shaw BilHngs, a member of the 

 Committee since the foundation of the Institution and Chairman of 

 the Board of Trustees since December 1903, and to record the 

 following resolution passed by the Committee at its meeting of 

 March 21, 1913: 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington record an expression of its keen personal and official regret 

 and sense of loss upon the death of Dr. John S. Billings. Dr. Billings has 

 long been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institution. He was 

 one of the organizers of the Institution and one of those who before the 

 organization inspired and guided the development of the project. He has 

 been a member of the Executive Committee from the beginning. He has 

 been assiduous and devoted to the duties of his trust. His breadth of 

 learning and of interest in all departments of knowledge, his sturdy and 

 fearless independence of character and the safe-guarding influence of his 

 experience have been of inestimable value during the exTJerimental and 

 formative period of the Institution, of whose future usefulness his service 

 will be one of the chief foundations. 



The President's report gives in detail the results of the work of 

 the Institution for the fiscal year 1912-1913, together with itemized 

 financial statements for the same period and a summary of receipts 



