REPORT OP THE SECRETARY 25 



INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC 

 LITERATURE 



Since actual publication of the International Catalogue was sus- 

 pended in 1922, owing to the inability of the foreign bureaus to con- 

 tribute their quota of the necessary financial support, the United 

 States bureau has continued to compile the necessary records of cur- 

 rent scientific publications. As explained each year to Congress and 

 to the Bureau of the Budget, the expenditures for this purpose have 

 been kept at the lowest possible level. 



An effort was made to inaugurate a practical plan for resuming 

 publication of the catalogue and the matter is still under negotiation. 

 It seems probable that the various countries previously represented 

 will again cooperate by furnishing the necessary bibliographical data 

 if the small capital fund needed to start the operation of the central 

 bureau and begin publication can be raised. 



NECROLOGY 



The Institution suffered the loss b}^ death during the year 

 of three distinguished members of the Board of Regents — Senator 

 Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, Mr. Charles Francis Choate, jr., and the 

 Hon. Henry White, These three men, in serving for varying periods on 

 the board, have aided materially in advancing the work and reputa- 

 tion of the Institution, and their names will be added with gratitude 

 to the long roster of distinguished men who have so served since 

 1846. 



Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, United States Senator from Michi- 

 gan, was born at Spencer, N. Y., January 6, 1853. He was principal 

 successively of several academies and colleges in Illinois until 1884, 

 when he founded the Ferris Institute, of which he thereafter served 

 as president. In 1913 he was elected Governor of Michigan, being 

 reelected in 1915. He was elected United States Senator from Michi- 

 gan for the term 1923 to 1929, but died on March 23, 1928, before the 

 completion of his term. Senator Ferris served on the Board of 

 Regents for three years. 



Charles Francis Choate, jr., laAvyer, of Boston, Mass., had at the 

 time of his death served on the Board of Regents for a longer period 

 than any other living member, having been first appointed on Feb- 

 ruary 24, 1908. He was born at Cambridge, Mass., on October 23, 

 1866, and was educated at Harvard University. He became presi- 

 dent of the Appleton Co., and was a director of the New York, New 

 Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., the Merchants National Bank of 

 Boston, and the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. j\Ir. Choate 

 died on November 30, 1927, having therefore been a Regent of the 

 Institution for nearly 20 years. 



