SECRETARY'S REPORT 9 



director of the research laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Co., 

 Rochester, N. Y. The subject of Dr. Mees's address was "Recent Ad- 

 vances in Astronomical Photography." This lecture will be published 

 in full in the general appendix of the Annual Report of the Board of 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for 1953. 



JAMES SMITHSON'S TOMB 



Ceremonies were held on the afternoon of June 24, 1953, in con- 

 nection with the rededication of the tomb of James Smithson, founder 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, which is located in a small chapel 

 near the north entrance of the Smithsonian Building. Speakers for 

 the occasion, which marked the 124th anniversary of Smithson's death 

 in Genoa, Italy, were Sir Roger Makins, British Ambassador to the 

 United States; Sir John Cockcroft, Chairman of the Defense Re- 

 search Policy Committee of Great Britain; and Dr. Leonard Car- 

 michael, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The Ambassador 

 and Sir John, on behalf of the British people, presented a Union Jack 

 to be displayed with the Stars and Stripes beside the tomb as a 

 "symbol of international understanding." 



The next day following the ceremonies William W. Johnson, of the 

 Treasurer's Office, was presented with a certificate of award for his 

 original suggestion that Smithson's crypt be redecorated. 



TERMINATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 



At the end of the calendar year 1952, the activities of the Institute 

 of Social Anthropology came to an end with the termination of grants 

 from the Institute of Inter- American Affairs, Department of State, 

 under which the Institute had operated. This agency was created in 

 1943 as an autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology to 

 carry out cooperative training in anthropological teaching and re- 

 search with the other American republics as a part of the wartime 

 program of the Interdepartmental Committee for Cooperation with 

 the American Republics. Its first director and founder was Dr. Julian 

 H. Steward, who was succeeded in 1946 by Dr. George M. Foster. 

 Summaries of the work of the Institute have been included each year 

 within the report of the director of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. One of the lasting monuments of the agency is the 16 mono- 

 graphs in the Smithsonian series entitled "Publications of the Institute 

 of Social Anthropology," the final number of which appeared in 1953. 

 Several anthropologists remaining on the Institute of Social Anthro- 

 pology staff on December 31, 1952, were transferred to the Institute 

 of Inter- American Affairs. 



