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mended that the executor be authorized to sell at the best prices ob- 

 tainable the several lots of real estate included in Mr. Poore's hold- 

 ings. The executor submitted his appraisal of these properties, and 

 an independent appraisal has also been made by a real estate broker 

 of Lowell. These differed so widely that your committee has thought 

 it best to request Mr. Choate to direct that a third appraisal be made 

 by a totally disinterested party. Mr. Choate has consented to see 

 that this is done at the earliest possible moment. 



" The Langley Monunbent fund. — Mr. J. D. Lyon, of Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., has requested the Smithsonian Institution to receive contribu- 

 tions for the purpose of erecting a monument to the late Secretary 

 Langley, in commemoration of his work in the science of aviation. 

 Mr. Lyon inclosed his personal check for $200 as a beginning of the 

 fund. Your committee sees no objection to the Institution acting as 

 the custodian of such a fund, nor to the secretary taking the matter 

 up informally with the Aero Club of Washington. 



" Tlce Hodgkins and Avei'y funds. — These funds remain in the 

 same condition as last reported." 



[The secretary said that in connection with the Langley Monument 

 fund he desired to add to the report that he had heard from the sec- 

 retary of the Aero Club, who assured him that the matter in question 

 would be placed before the officers and members of the club.] 



On motion, the report of the permanent committee was accepted. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The secretary presented his report of the operations of the Insti- 

 tution for the year ending June 80, 1911, stating that it was already 

 before the Regents in printed form. 



In this connection the secretary pointed out to tlio Regents the pub- 

 lications that the Institution had issued during the year, which had 

 been arranged on top of a bookcase, and said that since the last annual 

 meeting in December, 1910, the Institution and its branches had 

 printed a total of 178 publications, aggregating about 9,000 pages of 

 text and 600 plates of illustrations. Included in this aggregate were 

 62 volumes and pamphlets (1,640 pages and 151 plates) published by 

 the Institution proper; 105 volumes and pamphlets (4,123 pages and 

 319 plates) bj- the National Museum; and 12 volumes and pamphlets 

 (3,300 pages and 120 plates) by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



During the year the Institution and its branches had distributed 

 about 200,000 copies of their various publications. The publications 

 issued by the Institution proper comprised the Langley Memoir on 

 Mechanical Flight, a new edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables, 

 a series of papers descriptive of some of the results of the African 

 expedition and of the biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 



