XVI PROCEEDITSTGS OF THE BOARD OF EEGENTS. 



He then stated certain considerations with regai'd to the relationship 

 of the Smithsonian Institution to the Carneg-ie Institution, and asked 

 for an expression of the opinions of the Regents for his instruction. 

 After discussion it was announced as the sense of the Board that the 

 Secretary should accept the trusteeship unfettered hy instructions. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE INSTITUTION. 



The Secretary called the attention of the Board to the exhiliition of 

 Reports and other publications which had been issued b}' the Institu- 

 tion during the year. 



The Secretaiy then spoke of the affairs of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 and of the Astroph3^sical Observatoiy, whose first volume of the 

 Annals he exhibited. With regard to the Observatory, the Secretary 

 said further that Congress had asked for a report of the appropria- 

 tions g-ranted it and of the results obtained. Such a I'eport had been 

 submitted at the beginning of the session, and had been ordered 

 printed. It included the Annals above referred to, and he had been 

 enabled to add a number of commendatory letters from eminent men 

 of science, such as Sir George Stokes, Lord Rayleigh, Lord Kelvin, 

 Sir William Huggins, Sir Robert Ball, Prof. Simon Newcomb, Prof. 

 E. C. Pickering, Prof. G. E. Hale, and others. 



There being no further ])usincss to come before the Board, on 

 motion the meeting adjourned. 



