PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 

 ENDED JUNE 30, 1931 



ANNUAL MEETING, DECEMBER 11, 1930 



Present: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, chancellor, in the 

 chair, Vice President Charles Curtis, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, 

 Representative Albert Johnson, Representative R. Walton Moore, 

 Representative Robert Luce, Frederic A. Delano, Dr. John C. 

 Merriam, and the secretary, Dr. C. G. Abbot. Dr. Alexander Wet- 

 more, assistant secretary was also present. 



At the previous annual meeting of the board, the Langley gold 

 medal for aerodromics was awarded to Charles Matthews Manly 

 (posthumously) and to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. At the pres- 

 ent meeting the actual presentation of the medal was made to Mr. 

 Manly through his son Charles W. Manly. The chancellor made the 

 address of presentation, and Mr. Manly accepted the medal on behalf 

 of his family. Extracts from the remarks of the chancellor and Mr. 

 Manly will be found in the Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for 1931. 



Mr. Delano, chairman of the executive committee, offered the 

 following customary resolution, which was adopted: 



Resolved, That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1932, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the 

 secretary, with the advice of the executive committee, with full discretion on 

 the part of the secretary as to items. 



The secretary presented his printed report for the fiscal year ending 

 Jane 30, 1930. He stated that the publications of the Institution 

 during the fiscal year 1930 totaled 95 volumes and pamphlets, of 

 which 38 were issued by the Institution proper, 51 by the National 

 Museum, and 6 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. Under the 

 Institution's pohcy of world-\\ade distribution, 168,163 copies of its 

 publications were sent out to organizations and individuals, for the 

 most part free. 



Mr. Delano submitted the printed report showing the financial 

 affairs of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930. 



The annual report of the National Gallery of Art Commission was 

 presented and accepted, and the following resolution was adopted: 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution hereby 

 approves the recommendation of the National Gallery of Art Commission that 

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