THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
MEMBERS EX OFFICIO OF THE “ESTABLISHMENT.” 
June 30, 1907. 
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States. 
CHARLES W. FatrBanks, Vice-President of the United States. 
MELVILLE W. Futter, Chief Justice of the United States. 
ELinvu Root, Secretary of State. 
GEORGE 5B. Cortetyou, Secretary of the Treasury. 
WILLIAM H. Tart, Secretary of War. 
CHARLES J. BoNAPARTE, Attorney-General. 
GEORGE voN L. Mryer, Postmaster-General. 
Victor. H. Mrercarr, 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
By the organizing act approved August 10, 1846 (Revised Stat- 
utes, Title LX XTII, section 5580), “ The business of the Institution 
shall be conducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, 
named the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of 
the Vice-President, the Chief Justice of the United States, three mem- 
bers of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representa- 
tives, together with six other persons other than Members of Congress, 
two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington, and the other 
four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of the same State.” 
REGENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1907. 
Term expires. 
The Chief Justice of the United States: 
MELVILLE W. FULLER, elected Chancellor and President 
of the Board January 9, 1889. 
The Vice-President of the United States: 
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ex officio March 4, 1905____---- Mar. 3, 1909 
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