THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



JUNE 30, 1D08. 



Presiding offlcer ex officio. — Theodore Roosevklt, President of the Uuited States. 

 Chancellor. — Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of tlie Tnited States. 

 Members of the Institution: 



Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. 



Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice-President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. 



Elihu Root, Secretary of State. 



George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury. 



William H. Taft, Secretary of War.. 



Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney-General. 



George von L. Meyer, Postmaster-General. 



Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary of the Navy. 



James R. Garfield, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 

 Regents of the Institution: 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor. 



Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice-President of the United States. 



Shelby M. Cullom, Member of the Senate. 



Henry Cabot Lodge, Member of the Senate. 



A. O. Bacon, Member of the Senate. 



John Dalzell, Member of the House of Representatives. 



James R. Mann, Member of the House of Representatives. 



William M. Howard, Member of the House of Representatives. 



James B. Angell, citizen of Michigan. 



Andrew D. White, citizen of New York. 



John B. Henderson, citizen of Washington, D. C. 



Alexander Graham Bell, citizen of Washington, D. C. 



George Gray, citizen of Delaware. 



Charles F. Choate, Jr., citizen of Massachusetts. 

 Executive Committee. — J. B. Henderson, Alexander Graham Bell, John 



Dalzell. 

 Secretary of the Institution. — Charles D. Walcott. 

 Assistant Secretaries. — Richard Rathbun ; Cyrus Adleb. 

 Chief Clerk. — Harry W. Dorsey. 

 Accountant and Disbursing Agent. — W. I. Adams. 

 Editor. — A. Howard Clark. 



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