REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 6 



exhibition and euro of the inci'casin*;- collections, and tlic need of 

 special action to .secure it. 



After discussion, the following- resolution was adopted: 



Resohed^ That a committee eonsisting of six nuMuhers of this Board 

 be appointed by the Chancellor, whose duty it shall bi> to represent to 

 Congress the pressing necessity of additional room for the proper 

 exhil)ition of specimens belonging to the National Museum, and of 

 additional appropriations to carry on the work of the Mus(uuii. 



The Chanc(dlor appointed as members of this conunittee Senators 

 Piatt, CuUom, and Cockrell. and Ke})r(>sentatives Ilitt. Adams, and 

 Dinsmore. 



The Board adopted the annual reports of the ex'ecutive and perma- 

 nent committees, which had been presented l)y their chairman. Senator 

 Henderson. The usual resolution relati\ c to income and expenditure 

 was adopted. 



The Secretary read a letter from the authorities of the British 

 l)urial ground at Genoa, stating that when the time arrived for the 

 abolition of the cemetery by the Italian Government and the transfer 

 of the ])odies there to a new site, the remains of Smithson would be 

 reinterred with due reverence and care. 



Mr. Bell said that he would like \ery miu-li to have i\\v. records show 

 that he had })resente(l to the Board at the last meeting an expression of 

 his strong feeling that the remains of Smithson should 1k^ brought to 

 this country. 



The Secretary said that the governor of New Mexico had offered to 

 transfer to the Institution an ancient Spanish palace in Santa Fe, on 

 condition that it be maintained, without cost to the State, as a nuiseum 

 of the archaeology of the Southwest, After discussion the Board 

 decided that it was inadvisable to accept the proposition. 



The Secretary said that since* the foundation of the Smithsonian 

 Institution there had perhaps occurred no event of more importance 

 to it than the foundation of a new institution — the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion — whose declared aims and general purix)ses were nearly those 

 which the Institution has hitherto considered its own. Mr. Carnegie 

 invited the Secretary of the Smithsonian to become a member of the 

 board of trustees for the management of this fund, in the following 



letter: 



Dkcember 27, 1901. 

 Dear Sir: I am about to transfer ten millions of 5 per cent honds to a body of 

 trustees for the purposes described in tlic inclosed paper. A list nf the trustees 

 selected is also inclosed 



It will be a source of much jjleasure to me if you will kindly consent to serve. 



Truly yours, Andrew Carneoie. 



The Secretary of the SMrrnsoNiAX iNSTrruTioN. 



The letter was accompanied h\ a list of the trustees and by a state- 

 ment of the considerations which led to the establishment of the foun 

 dation. The Secretary read the articles of incoi-poration of th(> new 



