PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. XVII 
dressed granite required for the exterior walls of the building, con- 
sisting only of the second story and the exterior walls of the main 
pavilion, was under contract and its manufacture under way at the 
quarries. All of the remaining steelwork required for the building 
was also under contract, and all except that for the roof was ready 
for erection. Should the balance of the granite be furnished in 
accordance with the contracts, it was fair to expect that the entire 
building would be completed and ready for occupancy by January 1, 
1909. 
The Acting Secretary announced the final liquidation, since the last 
meeting of the Board, of the indebtedness of the Institution to the 
central London bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific 
Literature, resulting from the defalcation of W. W. Karr. 
He also stated that the initial steps taken toward the building up of 
a National Gallery of Art had continued to attract widespread atten- 
tion and to receive favorable comment. The lecture hall in the 
Museum building had been temporarily adapted to this purpose, and 
its walls were already fairly well covered with pictures, including, 
besides those owned by the Government, a number of choice paintings 
obtained by loan. Art objects other than paintings, selected from the 
collections of the Museum, occupied the floor space, and it was ex- 
pected, as soon as the installation was perfected, that the hall would 
present a very creditable appearance. 
Reference was made to the increasing demand for the Annual Re- 
port of the Institution and the effort to prevent the duplication result- 
ing from sending the Smithsonian edition to public depositories which 
were also supplied by the Superintendent of Documents. Of the 
replies received to the present time, some 90 per cent were of the 
nature of earnest appeals that the Institution continue to send its 
edition, accompanied by many gratifying remarks as to the esteem in 
which the report is held, and the great demand for it among readers. 
ELECTION OF A SECRETARY. 
The Board then went into executive session, and Dr. Charles Doo- 
little Walcott, of Washington, was unanimously elected Secretary of 
the Institution, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. S. P. 
Langley. 
REGULAR MEETING OF MARCH 6, 1907. 
Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Sen- 
ator S. M. Cullom, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator A. O. Bacon, 
the Hon. John B. Henderson, Dr. A. Graham Bell, and the Secretary, 
Mr. Charles D. Walcott. 
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