Ill REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



with regard to them took place between the Secretary and the Librarian 

 .>n May LO of the present year, from which it appears that the bound 

 volumes are, in general, accessible, but that a large portion of the un- 

 bound engravings which the catalogue — au imperfect one, — appears to 

 ( . a ll for, — can not at present be found, nor is it, indeed (owing to the im- 

 perfection of the present catalogue and lists), yet certain that all of these 

 were in fact sent to the Library of Congress. 



I mention in connection with the expression of the interest that the 

 Institution is intended to take in art, the fact that the Regents, at their 

 meeting of October, 1891, having instructed the Secretary to cause 

 to be painted a portrait of Mr. Hodgkins, he placed the execution of this 

 in the hands of Mr. Robert Gordon Hardie, who produced (though aided 

 only by a photograph and a description given by friends) a portrait of 

 Mr. Hodgkins both valuable as a work of art and singulaily true as a 

 likeness. This was submitted to the Regents at their meeting in Janu- 

 ary, and received their general approbation. 



In this same connection it may be observed that the portrait of Henry, 

 executed by the Regents' instructions in former years, was sent to 

 form a portion of the Smithsonian exhibit at the World's Fair in Chi- 

 cago. 



THE HODGKINS FUND. 



As stated in the Secretary's L'eport for 1892, the gift to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution of 1200,000 by Mr. Thomas George Hodgkins, of 

 Setauket, N. Y., was formally accepted at a special meeting of the Board 

 of Regents on the 21st of October, 1891. 



On the 23d of the same month Mr. Hodgkins added to his will a 

 codicil making the Smithsonian Institution his residuary legatee, but 

 the sum thus added to the original gift will not, it is understood, be 

 considerable. 



The committee appointed to advise upon matters connected with the 

 Bodgkins foundation* submitted the following circular, which was 

 approved, and published in March, 1892, and has since then been 

 widely distributed, more than 8,000 copies having been sent throughout 

 the world to learned institutions and to investigators, and, on request, 

 to all expressing themselves interested in the researches which, in 

 accordance with the wish of the founder, it is the design to have 

 specially furthered by the income from the Hodgkins fund. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



[Presiding officer exofficio: The President of the United States. Chancellor: The Chief Justice of the 

 I nitcil States. All correspondence should l>e addressed to the secretary, S. 1'. Langley.] 



CIRCULAR CONCERNING THE HODGKINS FUND PRIZES. 



In ( )ctober, 1891, Thomas George Hodgkins, Esq., of Setauket, N. Y., 

 made a donation to the Smithsonian Institution, the income from a 

 part of which was to be devoted " to the increase and diffusion of more 



See Secretary's Report for 1892, p. 20. 



