REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 9 



Charles Evans Hughes, Chancellor; Senator Bennett Champ Clark; 

 Kepresentatives Charles L. Gifford and Clarence Cannon; citizen 

 regents Frederic A. Delano, Roland S. MoiTis, Harvey N. Davis, 

 and Vannevar Bush; and the Secretary, Dr. Charles G. Abbot. 



The meeting was held in the Smithsonian main hall, which had 

 recently been newly decorated and equipped with illustrative exhibits 

 giving a comprehensive view of all Smithsonian activities. The new 

 exhibits were viewed with approval by the regents. 



The Board received and accepted the Secretary's annual report 

 covering the year's activities of the parent institution and the several 

 Government branches. The Board also received and accepted the 

 report by Mr. Delano, of the executive committee, covering financial 

 statistics of the Institution; and the annual report of the Smith- 

 sonian Art Commission. 



The Secretary informed the regents of the death of Mrs. Mary 

 Vaux Walcott on August 22, 1940, and of her designation of the 

 Smithsonian Institution as residuary legatee, the bequest, when re- 

 ceived, to be made a part of the Charles D. and Mary Yaux AValcott 

 Research Fund set up by the former Secretary. Appropriate resolu- 

 tions were adopted by the Board. 



In his usual special report the Secretary mentioned briefly the 

 more important activities carried on by the Institution and its 

 branches during the year. 



FINANCES 



A statement on finances will be found in the report of the Execu- 

 tive Committee of the Board of Regents, page 130. 



MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST 

 SMITHSONIAN RADIO PROGRAM 



The Smithsonian educational radio program, "The World is 

 Yours," celebrated its fifth anniversary on the air on June 14, 1941. 

 On that date a special program was prepared wherein extracts from 

 specially successful previous broadcasts were woven together into 

 a composite story to illustrate the way in which the various sciences 

 are handled in this series. "The World is Yours," a series of weekly 

 half-hour broadcasts in dramatized form on science, invention, his- 

 tory, exploration, and art, is put on the air over a Nation-wide 

 network through the cooperation of the United States Office of 

 Education and the National Broadcasting Co. The program subjects 

 are selected by the Smithsonian editorial division and the scripts are 

 written by a professional script writer, employed by the Institution, 

 from material furnished by Smithsonian experts in the various fields. 



