2 EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Institution and the advice and the instruction of the Board of 

 Regents." 



As organized on June 30, 1905, the Establishment consisted of the 

 following ex officio members: 



Theodore Eoosevelt, President of the United States. 



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



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



John Hay, Secretary of State. 



Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of Treasury. . 



William H. Taft, Secretary of War. 



Willi a:m H. Moody, Attorney-General. 



George B. Cortelyou, Postmaster-General. 



Paul Morton, Secretary of Navy. 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agricidture. 



Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary of C ommerce and Labor. 



organization of the board of regents. 



The Board of Regents 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 Plouse 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.'' 



As organized at the end of the fiscal year, the Board consisted of 

 the following members : 



The Hon. M. W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, Chan- 

 cellor; the Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, Vice-President of the United 

 States ; Senator S. M. Cullom, Representative R. R. Hitt, Representa- 

 tive Robert Adams, jr., Representative Hugh A. Dinsmore, Dr. James 

 B. Angell, of Michigan; Dr. Andrew D. A^^liite, of New York; the 

 Hon. J. B. Henderson, of Washington City; Prof. A. Graham Bell, 

 of Washington City ; the Hon. Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, and 

 the Hon. George Gra3% of Delaware. 



There are two vacancies on the Board, caused by the death of Sena- 

 tor O. H. Piatt and the retirement of Senator Francis M. Cockrell. 



meetings of the board of regents. 



At a meeting of the Board of Regents held March 12, 1903, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was adopted : 



" Resolved., That in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the 

 fourth Wednesday in January, regular meetings of the Board shall 

 be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in December and on 

 the 6th day of March, unless that date falls on Sunday, when the 

 following Monday shall be substituted." 



