PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 101 
atmospheric air and for his discovery of the extraordinary magnetic 
properties of liquid oxygen. The second award of the medal was 
to Prof. J. J. Thomson in 1902 for his investigations on the conduc- 
tivity of gases, especially on the gases that compose atmospheric air. 
It is now proposed to award a third Hodgkins medal, provided it 
is determined that sufficiently meritorious discoveries or investiga- 
tions of the character mentioned have been made, and in order to 
pass upon the matter an advisory committee on award has been 
appointed. 
PUBLICATION FUND FOR THE INSTITUTION. 
The secretary stated that under the general appropriation for 
public printing and binding, the Institution is allotted $10,000 for the 
printing of its annual reports, but that its other publications were 
paid for from private funds of the Institution. 
He exhibited a set of the publications issued by the Institution 
and its branches during the past two years, many of which had been 
published at the cost of the Institution. 
Mr. Mann inquired if the secretary would like to have a larger 
edition of the annual report, to which the secretary replied that it 
would be desirable. Mr. Mann responded that this might be possible 
by a special resolution for any one year. 
There was some further discussion, during which it was suggested 
that. it would be proper for the secretary to speak of the matter of 
an appropriation for the publications of Smithsonian works when 
he was before the Committee on Appropriations. 
DEATH OF OCTAVE CHANUTE. 
The secretary recalled to the board that when the committee on 
award of the Langley medal was appointed, Mr. Octave Chanute 
was designated its chairman. Mr. Chanute died on November 23 
last. His eminence as an engineer and his own important work in 
the science of aeronautics peculiarly fitted him for the duties of 
chairman of this committee, and his death wiil be a severe blow to the 
new science. 
The secretary added that it seemed best to defer the selection of his 
successor as chairman of the committee for the present. 
FULLER MEMORIAL SERVICE. 
Senator Cullom said that he thought some more formal action 
should be taken-in regard to the death of Chief Justice Fuller than 
had been adopted at this meeting, and inquired whether the maiter 
was being considered. 
