REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



In conformity with Article IV, section 2, of the By-Laws of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, I have the honor to 

 submit the following report on the work of the Institution for 

 the fiscal year ending October 31, 1914, along with recommenda- 

 tions of appropriations for the ensuing year and with sundry 

 suggestions concerning other matters of general or special interest. 



This report is the thirteenth annual report of the Institution 

 and is presented under the following principal heads: 



1. Salient events of the year. 



2. Researches of Institution. 



3. Financial records. 



4. Publications. 



5. Proposals for budget for 1915 and other recommendations. 



SALIENT EVENTS OF THE YEAR. 



In my report of a year ago attention was called to the lengthy 

 list of deceased members of the Board of Trustees of the Insti- 

 tution since its establishment in 1902. This list 

 ecroogy. gj^gfj tlic uamcs of thirteen men, all of whom had 

 been members of the initial Board or of the Board as reorganized 

 under the act of Congress of April 28, 1904. Along with this 

 total of thirteen, must now be recorded the names of two other 

 colleagues who were also members of the initial Board. These 

 are Silas Weir Mitchell, who died at his home in Philadelphia, 

 January 5, 1914; and John Lambert Cadwalader, who died at 

 his home in the City of New York, March 11, 1914. 



A singular series of circumstances is recalled by the deaths 

 of these colleagues so soon after the death of John Shaw Billings, 

 whose obituary was recorded in the preceding report. These 

 three men, in many respects of widely different temperaments, 



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