REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 6 



from expressing his own personal sense of loss at the removal 

 of one whoso broad scholarship and largo experience in public 

 affairs wore joined to a disposition which made him at once the 

 most valued and sympathetic of counselors. The Hon. J. B. 

 Henderson, chairman of the Executive Committee, also made 

 some personal references to Mr. Wilson, which together with 

 the action of the Board in his memory will be found under 

 the head of "Necrology." 



The vacancy in the Board caused by the death of Mr. Wilson 

 was rilled by the appointment of the Hon. George Gray 

 through a resolution of Congress approved January 14, 1901. 



The Secretary presented his report of the operations of the 

 Institution for the fiscal } T ear ending June 30, 1900, calling- 

 especial attention to the subject of the Exchanges, in whose 

 behalf he had visited England, France, and German}-, and had 

 endeavored to secure better arrangements with those coun- 

 tries, and he hoped that from France and perhaps from Ger- 

 many fuller returns might be expected. 



He also spoke of the Zoological Park and his desire that 

 the Government would place in that city of refuge for the 

 vanishing animal races of the North American continent, some 

 specimens of the giant animals of Alaska. 



Mr. Hitt here brought to the attention of the Board the 

 oration which had been delivered upon the occasion of the 

 conferring of the degree of Doctor of Science upon the 

 Secretary by the University of Cambridge, England, which 

 Mr. Henderson, whom the Regents "knew to be a scholar 

 who loved the tasks of scholarship, had translated into such 

 English as Horace would have used if he had to speak in 

 that tongue." It was ordered that the address of the public 

 orator and the translation by Mr. Henderson be placed upon 

 the record. 



After the adoption of the reports of the executive and per- 

 manent committees which had been presented by Mr. Bell in 

 the absence of their chairman, Senator Henderson, attention 

 was called to the fact that a vacancy existed in the executive 

 committee, caused by the death of Dr. Wilson, and upon 

 resolution, the Hon. R. R. Hitt was elected to till this vacancy. 



The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences having invited the 

 Institution to participate in the celebration of the two hun- 

 dredth anniversary of its foundation, on the 19th and 20th of 



