XVIII PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 
REAPPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 
The Chancellor announced that the Vice-President had reappointed 
Senators Cullom and Bacon as Regents, dating from March 4. 
ANDREWS WILL DECISION. 
Mr. Henderson, chairman of the permanent committee, read a letter 
from Mr. F. W. Hackett, counsel for the Institution, giving a state- 
ment of the adverse decision in regard to the Institution’s suit in the 
Andrews will case by the appellate division of the supreme court of 
New York. 
CLAIM OF BELL & CO. 
Senator Bacon, acting with the executive committee on this claim, 
submitted a letter and report on this subject, and after discussion the 
following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized to include in the estimates for the 
fiscal year 1908-9 for the Bureau of American Ethnology an item to cover the 
claim of Bell & Co., setting forth the facts. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mrs. R. R. Hitt, acknowledging 
the resolutions adopted by the Board on the death of her husband; 
also a letter from Prof. John W. Langley, acknowledging the action 
of the Board in connection with the gift of the medals and scientific 
tokens and apparatus of his brother, the late Secretary S. P. Langley. 
SALE OF BONDS. 
The Secretary said that, in accordance with the resolution of the 
Board at the meeting of January 23, 1907, the Government bonds to 
the par value of $7,850, being the residuary Hodgkins legacy, were 
sold on February 5, 1907, to Lewis Johnson & Co., bankers, for 
$7,918.69, and this amount deposited to the credit of the permanent 
Smithsonian fund in the United States Treasury. The bonds ma- 
tured July 1, 1907; selling price, 1008. 
GIFT OF PAINTING BY MR. JOHN B. HENDERSON. 
The Secretary announced the gift to the Institution by Mr. Hen- 
derson of a large painting of the Yellowstone Canyon. 
Senator Cullom, after remarks by Regents, submitted the follow- 
ing resolution, which was adopted: 
Resolwed, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution hereby 
tender their appreciative thanks to the Hon. John B. Henderson, one of their 
number, for his public-spirited generosity in presenting a valuable painting of 
the Yellowstone Canyon to the Institution for its National Gallery of Art, 
