XVIIl PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAKD OF KEUENTS. 



After conference with the chairman of the executive committee the 

 SecretaiT addressed Mr. Freer, asking if he could see his way to 

 modify the requirements of the fifth chiuse of his conditions, to 

 which a reply was received that after serious consideration no modifi- 

 cation could be made in the terms of the clause referred to. 



A very general discussion arose as to the matters invohod under 

 the terms of the proposed donation, the prevailing opinion being that 

 more information was necessary before the Board could come to a 

 conclusion. It was pointed out that Mr. Freer had asked that a com- 

 mittee \'isit him for the purpose of seeing the coUectioji, and the 

 Board decided to accept the suggestion. The following resolution 

 was according!}^ adopted: 



Resolved, That the Chancellor appoint a committee of tliree Regents, whose duty 

 it shall be to make personal examination of the collection of art oVjjects which Mr. 

 Charles L. Freer has proposed to give or bequeath to the Smitlisonian Institution, 

 and make report to the Board of its value and merits, and said committee is further 

 instructed to ascertain from Mr. Freer what alterations, if any, can be made in the 

 conditions of his very generous proposal; and the Secretary of this Institution is 

 hereby added as an additional member of this committee. 



The Chancellor appointed Doctor Angell, Senator Henderson, Doc- 

 tor Bell, and the Secretary as the committee. 

 The Board then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING OF MARCH 6, 1905. 



Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; the Hon. 

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

 O. H. Piatt, the Hon. Robert Adams, jr., the Hon. Hugh A. Dinsmore, 

 the Hon. Andrew D. White, the Hon. John B, Henderson, Dr. A. 

 Graham Bell, and the Secretary, Mr. S. P. Langley. 



MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. 



The minutes of the meeting held January 25, 1905, were read in 

 abstract and approved. 



APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



The Secretary, after stating the necessity for the appointment of an 

 additional assistant secretary of the Institution, asked the Board's 

 approval of his selection of Dr. Cyrus Adler, the present Librarian of 

 the Institution, for the position, adding an explanatorj^ statement as 

 to Doctor Adler's fitness for the duties. 



Senator Henderson followed with further commendatory remarks, 

 and presented the subjoined resolution, which was adopted: 



Resolved, That the appointment by the Secretary of Dr. Cyi'ua Adler as Assistant 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the Library and the Exchanges, 

 with such additional duties as the Secretary may assign him, be approved. 



