98 ANNUAL REPOET" SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, lft08. 



sonian Institution, and express to him the high appreciation of the members of the 

 board of his services as a Eegent, and their regret at the termination of his official 

 connection with the Institution. 



The secretary was instructed to transmit notice of the resignation 

 to Congress. 



RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. 



Mr. Henderson, as cliairman of the executive committee, submitted 

 the following resolution, which was adopted: 



Resolved, That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, 

 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. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Mr. Henderson, as chairman, presented the annual report of the 

 executive committee for the fiscal 3^ ear ending June 80, 1907. 

 On motion, the report was adopted. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE. 



The permanent committee respectfully submits the following report 

 covering the period since the annual meeting of the Board of Regents 

 on January 23, 1907: 



IIodgMns estate. — As reported to the board by the secretary, at its 

 meeting on March 6, 1907, the government bonds constituting the 

 residuum of the estate of the late Thomas George Hodgkins, and held 

 b}^ the New York Life and Trust Company pending the final decision, 

 on appeal, of a suit in which the liability of the estate of Mr. Hodg- 

 kins on a warranty of title by him in the transfer of certain real 

 property in New York City was in question, were, in accordance with 

 a resolution by the Board of Regents, sold and the proceeds deposited 

 to the credit of the permanent Smithsonian Fund in the United States 

 Treasury. No other transactions occurred during the year with refer- 

 ence to the funds received by the Institution through the Hodgkins 

 bequest. 



Andrews estate. — The hearing on appeal from the decision of the 

 supreme court of New York City, in May, 1906, sustaining the bequest 

 of Mr. Wallace C. Andrews for the establishment of the Andrews 

 Institute for Girls, at Willoughby, Ohio, took place at Albany, N. Y., 

 on January 15, 1908, the Institution being represented by Mr. Frank 

 W. Hackett and Mr. Edmund Wetmore. It was argued by counsel 

 for the Institution that the Smithsonian does not wish to receive the 

 legacy involved, unless in so doing it is carrying out the wishes of Mr. 

 Andrews in the matter. The sum involved, as has been already stated 

 to the board, is estimated at more than a million and a half dollars. 



