REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 25 
NECROLOGY. 
Meuvitte Weston FUuuLier. 
It becomes my duty to record here the death of Chief Justice Mel- 
ville Weston Fuller, Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution, who 
was born at Augusta, Maine, February 11, 1833, and died at his sum- 
mer home, Sorrento, Maine, July 4, 1910. For 22 years prior to his 
death, Chief Justice Fuller had been deeply interested in the welfare 
of the Institution, and only on one occasion was he absent from a 
meeting of the Regents during the entire period of his service as a 
member of the board. 
During his long and useful life Justice Fuller served his country 
faithfully in several civil offices of trust and as Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the United States. His achievements as a jurist 
were most adequately portrayed by the resolutions and eulogies pro- 
nounced in his memory at a meeting of members of the bar of the 
Supreme Court on December 10, 1910, and at the session of the 
Supreme Court on January 3, 1911. 
The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution expressed 
their sorrow in the following words of tribute adopted at the annual 
meeting of the board on December 8, 1910: 
Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have received 
the sad intelligence of the death, on July 4, 1910, of Melville Weston Fuller, 
Chief Justice of the United States, and for twenty-two years chancellor of the 
Institution: Therefore be it 
Resolved, That we desire here to record our profound sorrow at the severing 
of the tie that has bound us to him for so long a period of honored service; 
that we feel keenly the loss of a wise presiding officer, whose vast store of 
learning and gracious dignity have proved so invaluable in the deliberations 
of this board, and whose loyal interest in the Smithsonian Institution has been 
a source of inspiration to his colleagues. 
Resolved, That we share in the grief of the Nation at the passing away of 
one who was at once a distinguished leader of the greatest legal tribunal of 
our land, an eminent jurist, a patriotic citizen, a shining example of Christian 
gentleness, and who also possessed so charming a personality as a man and as 
a friend. 
Resolved, That we respectfully tender to the members of the family of our 
late associate our sincerest sympathy in their great bereavement. 
Resolved, That an engrossed copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the 
family of the late chancellor. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Cuaries D. Watcort, Secretary. 
