2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



supervision of the affairs of the Institution and the advice and 

 instruction of the Board of Regents.' 1 



On March 4, 1901, the vacancy in the membership of the 

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

 dent Hobart, on November 21, 1899, was filled by the election 

 of the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt to the Vice-Presidency. The 

 Hon. John W. Griggs resigned as Attorney-General and was 

 succeeded by the Hon. P. C. Knox. 



As organized on June 30, the Establishment consisted of 

 the following ex-officio members: 



William McKinley, President of thi United States. 



Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-President of the ('nihil 

 Stat v s. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of tin United 

 States. 



John Hay, Secrt tary of Statt . 



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 Navy. 



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 January, 1890, by which its annual meeting occurs 

 on the fourth Wednesday 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 

 lie 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 AVilson, and said that he could not refrain 



