2 REroRT OF THE SECRETARY. 



supervision of the affairs of the Institution and the advice and 

 instruction of the Board of Regents." 



On March 4, 11H)1, the vacancy in the membership of the 

 Establishment which had existed since the death of Vice-Presi- 

 dent Hobart, on November 21, 1899, was tilled }3y the election 

 of the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt to the Vice-Presidenc^^ The 

 Hon. John W. Griggs resigned as Attorne3^-General and was 

 succeeded b}' the Hon. P. C. Knox. 



As organized on June 30, the Establishment consisted of 

 the following ex-officio members: 



William McKinley, President of the. United States. 



Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President of the United 

 States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United 

 States. 



John Hay, Secretary of State. 



Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Elihu Root, Secretary of War. 



Philander C. Knox, Attorney- General. 



Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster'- General. 



John D. Long, Secretary of the N^avy. 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



BOARD OF REGENTS. 



The Board consists of the Vice-President and the Chief 

 Justice of the United States as ex-officio members, three 

 members of the Senate, three members of the House of 

 Representatives, and six citizens, "two of whom shall be 

 residents of the city of Washington and the other four shall 

 be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the 

 same State." 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents 

 adopted Januaiy, 1890, by which its annual meeting occurs 

 on the fourth Wednesda}^ of each year, the Board met on 

 January 23, 1901, at 10 o'clock a. m. 



The following is an abstract of its proceedings, which will 

 be found in detail in the annual report of the Board to 

 Congress: 



The Secretary announced the death on October 17, 1900, of 

 Dr. William Lyne Wilson, and said that he could not refrain 



