PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITH- 
SONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 
1911. 
At a meeting of the Board of Regents held December 14, 1909, the 
following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved, That hereafter the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion shall hold their annual meeting on the second Thursday in December and 
a supplementary meeting on the second Thursday in February. 
In accordance with this resolution the board met at 10 o’clock 
a.m., on December 8, 1910, and on February 9, 1911. 
ANNUAL MEETING, DECEMBER 8, 1910. 
Present: The Hon. James 8S. Sherman, Vice President of the 
United States; the Hon. John M. Harlan, presiding Justice of the 
United States Supreme Court; Senator S. M. Cullom; Senator Henry 
Cabot Lodge; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative John Dalzell; 
Representative James R. Mann; Representative William M. Howard; 
Dr. Andrew D. White; the Hon. John B. Henderson; Mr. Charles F. 
Choate, jr.; and the secretary, Mr. Charles D. Walcott. 
The meeting was called to order by the Vice President. 
DEATH OF THH CHANCELLOR. 
The secretary announced the death of the chancellor of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the 
United States, which occurred at Sorrento, Maine, on July 4, 1910. 
The intelligence of this sad event was received at the Institution in 
the absence of the secretary, and Mr. Richard Rathbun, the acting 
secretary, sent a telegram of condolence, both official and personal, to 
Mrs. Nathaniel Francis, who was with her father at the time of his 
death. Mr. Rathbun attended the obsequies at Sorrento as the repre- 
sentative of the Institution, and accompanied the funeral party to 
Chicago, where interment took place on July 8. 
The secretary stated that the advice and suggestions of the chan- 
cellor in relation to matters affecting the Institution that were 
brought to his attention had always been most helpful. He added 
that he had enjoyed a personal acquaintance with the chancellor that 
had extended over 20 years, and that it was with a deep sense of the 
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