2 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



The affairs of the Institution are administered by a Board of 

 Regents, whose membership consists of "the Vice President, the 

 Chief Justice, three Members of the Senate, and three Members of 

 the House of Representatives, together with six other persons other 

 than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city 

 of Washington and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, 

 but no two of them of the same State." One of the Regents is elected 

 chancellor by the board ; in the past the selection has fallen on either 

 the Vice President or the Chief Justice; and a suitable person is 

 chosen by them as secretary of the Institution, who is also secretary 

 of the Board of Regents and the executive officer directly in charge 

 of the Institution's activities. 



In regard to the personnel of the board, it becomes my sad duty 

 to record the death, on May 19, 1921, of its chancellor, Edward 

 Douglass White, Chief Justice of the United States. Resolutions 

 in memory of Chancellor White were adopted by the Regents at a 

 special meeting held May 27, 1921, when the Hon. Calvin Coolidge, 

 Vice President of the United States, was elected chancellor of the 

 Institution. 



The only other change in the personnel of the board was the 

 appointment of the Hon. A. Owsley Stanley, Senator from Ken- 

 tucky, as a Regent on January 5, 1921, to succeed Senator Charles S. 

 Thomas. The roll of Regents at the close of the fiscal year was as 

 follows : Calvin Coolidge, Vice President of the United States, 

 chancellor; Henry Cabot Lodge, Member of the Senate; A. Owsley 

 Stanley, Member of the Senate ; Medill McCormick, Member of the 

 Senate; Lemuel P. Padgett, Member of the House of Representa- 

 tives; Frank L. Greene, Member of the House of Representatives; 

 John A. Elston, Member of the House of Representatives ; Alexander 

 Graham Bell, citizen of Washington, D. C. ; George Gray, citizen of 

 Delaware; Charles F. Choate, jr., citizen of Massachusetts; John B. 

 Henderson, citizen of Washington, D. C; Henry White, citizen of 

 Maryland; and Robert. S. Brookings, citizen of Missouri. 



The board held its annual meeting on December 9, 1920. The pro- 

 ceedings of that meeting, as well as the annual financial report of the 

 executive committee, have been printed as usual for the use of the 

 Regents, while such important matters acted upon as are of public 

 interest are reviewed under appropriate heads in the present report 

 of the secretary. A detailed statement of disbursements from the 

 Government appropriations under the direction of the Institution 

 for the maintenance of the National Museum, the National Zoological 

 Park, and other branches will be submitted to Congress by the sec- 

 retary in the usual manner in accordance with the law. 



