'2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



the Hon. John D. Long-, Secretaiy (^f the Navy, and the Hon. Charles 

 Emory Smith, Postmaster-General. 



As organized on June 30, 1902, the Establishment consisted of the 

 following ex officio mem])ers: 



Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. 



(Vacancy), Vice-President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. 



John Hay, Secretary of State. 



Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary (f the Treasury. 



Elihu Koot, Secretary of War. 



Philander C. Knox, Attorney- General. 



Henry C. Payne, Postmaster- Ge/neral. 



William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy. 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Inter i<yr. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



board of regents. 



The Board of Regents consists of the Vice-President and the Chief 

 Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three members of 

 the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six 

 citizens, "two of whom shall be residents of the city of Washington 

 and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of 

 them of the same State. *' 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

 Januaiy, 1890, by which its annual meeting occurs on the fourth 

 Wednesday of each year, the Board met on Jaiuiary 22. 1902, at 10 

 o'clock a. m. 



The following is an aV)stract of its proceedings, which will be found 

 in detail in the annual report of the Board to (Congress: 



The Secretary stated that Vice-President Roosevelt had been ex officio 

 a member of the Board, but that l)y I'eason of his succession to the 

 Presidency through the death of President McKinley his membership 

 upon the Board had ceased, and he had become the presiding officer 

 of the Institution. In accordance with pnvedent, an invitation had 

 been extended to the President pro temi)ore of the Senate, the Hon. 

 William P. Frye, to attend tiie meeting in place of the Vice-President. 



He announced the reappointment, as Regents, of Representatives 

 R. R. Hitt, Robert Adams, jr., and Hugh A. Dinsmore, whose terms 

 had expired. 



The Secretary presented his rc^port of the operations of the Institu- 

 tion for the fiscal year ending fJuiie 30, 1901, inviting the Board's 

 attention to the statements concerning the National Zoological Park, 

 the International Kxchange P)ureau, and the other interests under 

 their charge. He spoke particulaily with regard to th(^ crowded con- 

 dition of the National Museum, tl)(> need for additional space for the 



