40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1907, 
16, 1907. An appreciative account of his career will be given in the 
annual report on the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
Paul Edmond Beckwith, Assistant Curator of History in the Na- 
tional Museum, died on June 27, 1907. A sketch of his career is given 
in the report on the Museum. 
LANGLEY MEMORIAL MEETING. 
On December 3, 1906, a meeting in memory of the late Secretary 
Samuel P. Langley, was, in accordance with a resolution of the Board 
of Regents, held in the lecture hall of the National Museum. The 
Chancellor of the Institution, the Hon. Melville W. Fuller, Chief 
Justice of the United States, presided, and after preliminary re- 
marks introduced the speakers: The Hon. Andrew D. White, who 
presented the memoir on behalf of the Board of Regents; Prof. E. C. 
Pickering, director of Harvard College Observatory, who described 
Mr. Langley’s contributions to astronomy and astrophysics; and Oc- 
tave Chanute, esq., of Chicago, who spoke on Mr. Langley’s contribu- 
tions to aerodynamics. 
The addresses delivered on that occasion, together with a bibliog- 
raphy of the published works of Mr. Langley, have been issued by the 
Institution in the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 
and also in a special edition. 
Respectfully submitted. 
Cuas. D. Watcort, Secretary. 
