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Institution may regard itself as fortunate in having the cooperation 

 of two such men. 



" Mr. Kainey has intimated that he will probably conduct an ex- 

 pedition in India next year, and that he will wish to have Mr. Heller 

 with him on that occasion also. 



THE CHILDS FRICK EXPEDITION. 



" Mr. Childs Frick, of New York City, has organized and financed 

 an expedition into Abyssinia under his own leadership for the pur- 

 pose of hunting and making natural history collections. The party 

 includes Lieut. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, United States Army, retired, 

 who, as the board will remember, accompanied Col. Roosevelt on the 

 Smithsonian African expedition. Col. Mearns will collect and pre- 

 pare birds which will be presented by Mr. Frick to the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the National Museum collections. 



" Col. Mearns sailed in November, expecting to meet the other 

 members of the party in London, whence they were all to proceed to 

 Aden, from which point they will cross the Gulf of Aden and go 

 directly into the wilderness. It is expected that the expedition will 

 be in the field about seven months. 



HAMILTON LECTURES. 



" The board is aware that in 1874 Mr. James Hamilton made a 

 donation of $1,000 to the Institution, the income of which was to be 

 used for the purpose of providing lectures on scientific or useful 

 subjects. The interest on this fund was allowed to accumulate until 

 it had reached the sum of $1,000 which was added to the original 

 bequest. Under this augmented fund, lectures have been delivered 

 by Dr. Andrew D. White and Prof, George E. Hale. The third 

 lecture will be delivered by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, on the evening of February 8, 

 1912, which, being the second Thursday in February, will be the date 

 of the board's spring meeting." 



There being no further business, on motion the board adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, FEBRUARY 8, 1912. 



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

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

 Justice of the United States; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative 

 Scott Ferris; Representative Irvin S. Pepper; Hon. George Gray; 

 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell; and the secretary, Mr. Charles D. 

 Walcott. 



