PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGENTS. 123 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE VACANCY. 
On motion, the following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved, That the vacancy in the membership of the executive committee be 
filled by the election of the Hon. Maurice Connolly. 
RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. 
Senator Bacon, chairman of the executive committee, offered the 
following resolution, which was adopted: 
Resolved, That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1915, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended 
by the secretary with the advice of the executive committee, with full discretion 
on the part of the secretary as to items, 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
Senator Bacon, chairman, submitted the report of the executive 
committee for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. 
On motion, the report was adopted. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTHE. 
Hodgkins fund—This fund has undergone no changes since the 
last report. The following allotments have been made from its 
revenues during the year: 
To Mr. C. G. Abbot and Dr. Angstrém for conducting experi- 
ments in nocturnal radiation. 
‘By formal action of the board, certain allotments were authorized 
for immediate use in inaugurating the work of the proposed Langley 
Aerodynamical Laboratory. 
The board will recall that in connection with the International 
Congress on Tuberculosis, held in the National Museum in 1908, the 
Institution offered a Hodgkins prize of $1,500 for the best treatise 
on “The Relation of Atmospheric Air to Tuberculosis.” Nearly a 
hundred papers were submitted, and after a most exhaustive exam- 
ination of the essays by all the members of the advisory committee, 
which for various reasons encountered many delays, the award has 
been made, and the prize divided equally between Dr. Guy Hinsdale, 
of Hot Springs, Va., for his paper on “ ‘Tuberculosis in Relation to 
Atmospheric Air,” and Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, of New York City, 
whose essay is entitled “On the Relation of Atmospheric Air to 
Tuberculosis.” 
Avery bequest——Two of the parcels of land included in this be- 
quest have been sold for a total of $9,692.42, which sum has been 
deposited to the credit of the permanent fund of the Institution in 
the United States Treasury. 
