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 Institution and a detailed 

 estimate of the expenditures for the succeeding year. In accordance 

 with these provisions, the Executive Conmiittee herewith respectfully 

 submits its report for the year 1913-1914. 



During the fiscal j^ear ending October 31, 1914, the Executive Com- 

 mittee held ten meetings, including a joint meeting with the Finance 

 Committee on February 16, 1914. Printed reports of these meetings 

 have been sent to the Trustees of the Institution. 



Upon the adjournment of the Board of Trustees on December 12, 

 1913, the members of the Executive Committee met and organized by 

 the election of Mr. Welch as Chairman for 1914, and by voting that the 

 Assistant Secretary of the Institution act as Secretary of the Com- 

 mittee for the same period. 



It becomes the sad duty of the Executive Committee to report the 

 death on January 5, 1914, of Silas Weir Mitchell, a member of the 

 Board of Trustees and of the Executive Committee since the foundation 

 of the Institution, and to record the following resolution passed by the 

 Committee at its meeting of January 15, 1914: 



"Resolved, That the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington hereby records its deep sense of loss in the severance of warm 

 personal and official relations by the death of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell. As a 

 Trustee and as a member of the Executive Committee from the foundation 

 of the Institution, Dr. Mitchell has freely devoted to its interests not only a 

 generous share of his time and energy, but also that rare combination of 

 experience, learning, and insight which made him long preeminent as a man 

 of science and as a man of letters. His sympathetic interest in the work of 

 individuals, his versatility in an uncommonly wide variety of researches, and 

 his catholicity of judgment enabled him to render invaluable aid to the 

 Institution during his happily long and continuous service. His fruitful 

 suggestions, his confident optimism, his generous appreciation of the labors 

 of younger men, and his genial courtesy will long be held in grateful remem- 

 brance." 



We also regret to report the death, on March 11, 1914, of John 

 Lambert Cadwalader, a Trustee of the Institution since 1903. 



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

 Institution for the fiscal year 1913-1914, together with itemized finan- 

 cial statements for the same period and a summary of receipts and 



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