4 KEFORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



institution, and .stated that after couferenc-e with the Chancellor and 

 the chairman of the executive committee, he had accepted the trustee- 

 ship in the following terms, conditionally on the approval of the 

 ])oard: 



December 31, 1901. 



Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 27th 

 instant, with the accompanying papers outlining the general purpose of an institution 

 or establishment which you propose to found in the city of Washington for the 

 encouragement of research and kindred purposes, and also inclosing a list of jiroposed 

 trustees, in which you are good enough to name the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution as an ex officio member. 



It will give me, personally, great pleasure, with the consent of the Regents, to 

 accept membership upon this board, and I desire to express my sense of warm recog- 

 nition of the large i^urposes which have inspired you to make this noble benefaction. 

 I accept such membership in the absence of knowledge as to details, Ijut in the full 

 confidence of a sympathy with your general purpose. 



V^ery respectfully, yours, S. P. Langlev, 



Secretary. 

 Andrew Carnegie, Esq., 



JVo. 5 West F{ft7j-fifth Street, New York City. 



He then stated certain considerations w- ith regard to the relationship 

 of the Smithsonian Institution to the Carnegie 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 ])y instructions. 



The Secretary then spoke of the afiairs of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 and of the Astrophvsical Observatorv, 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 appropriations 

 granted it and of the results obtained. Such a report had been sub- 

 mitted 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 Kehin, Sir William 

 Huggins. Sir Rolx'rt Ball, Prof. Simon Newcomb. Prof. E. C. Picker 

 ing, Prof. G. E. Hale, and others. 



OKGAMZATTON OK noAKl) OF RF^GENTS. 



As organized at the end of the fiscal year, the Board of Regents 

 consisted of the following members: 



The lion. M. W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, Chan- 

 cellor; the Hon. W. P. Frye, President pro tempore of the United 

 States Senate; Senator S. M. ('ulloni; Senator O. H. Piatt: Senator 

 Francis M. Cockrell; Re])r('s('iitative R. R. Hitt; Representative Rob- 

 ert Adams, jr.; Repres(Mitative Hugh A. Dinsmore; Dr. James B. 

 Augell; Dr. Andrew D. White; the Hon. J. li. Henderson; Prof. A. 

 Graham Ik^ll; the Hon. Richard Olney. and the Hon. George Gray. 



