PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSON- 

 IAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1012. 



At a meeting of the Board of Kegeiits, held December 14, 1909, 

 the following resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That hereafter the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion shall hold their annual meeting on the second Thursday in December, and 

 a supplementary meeting on the second Thursday in February. 



In acordance with this resolution the board met at 10 o'clock a. m., 

 on December 14, 1911, and on February 8, 1912. 



ANNUAL MEETING, DECEMBER 14, 1911. 



Present : Hon. James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United 

 States, chancellor, in the chair; Hon. Edward Douglass Wliite, Chief 

 Justice of the United States; Senator S. M. Cullom; Senator Henr^^ 

 Cabot Lodge; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative John Dalzell; 

 Representative James R. Mann; Mr. William M. Howard; Dr. 

 Andrew D. AA^iite; Dr. Alexander Graham Bell; Mr. Charles F. 

 Choate, Jr.; Mr. John B. Henderson, Jr.; and the secretary, Mr. 

 Charles D. Walcott. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 



The secretary announced the appointment of the following Re- 

 gents : By the President of the Senate — Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, 

 for his senatorial term of six years; by the Speaker of the House — 

 Representatives John Dalzell, Scott Ferris, and Irvin S. Pepper, to 

 serve until December 24, 1913; by joint resolution of Congress, ap- 

 proved by the President March 1, 1911 — Mr. John B. Henderson, jr., 

 for six years, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. 

 John B. Henderson. 



RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. 



Senator Bacon, chairman of the executive cojiimittce, presented the 

 following resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That the income of the Institution for the liscal year ending June 

 30, 1913, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the 

 secretary, with the advice of the executive committee, with full discretion on 

 the part of the secretary as to items. 



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