102 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 
The secretary replied that it had been his intention to request 
certain members of the board to prepare sketches of Chief Justice 
Fuller’s life, which might later be printed in the annual report. 
Senator Cullom added that he would like very much to have an 
address delivered before the Regents by Justice Harlan, who above 
all others was the most competent to prepare it. 
After further discussion, Senator Cullom moved— 
That Mr. Justice Harlan be requested to deliver, under the auspices of the 
Board of Regents, and at such time as will best suit his convenience, an address 
upon the life and work of the late Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller. 
The motion was carried, and Justice Harlan said that he would 
be glad to deliver the address and that he would confer with the 
secretary on the subject. 
ADJOURNMENT. 
There being no further business to come before the board, on mo- 
tion the meeting adjourned and the Regents inspected the exhibit of 
skins and mounted specimens from the African expedition collection. 
REGULAR MEETING, FEBRUARY 9Q, 1911. 
Present: The Hon. James §. Sherman, Vice President of the 
United States (chancellor), in the chair; the Hon. Edward Douglass 
White, Chief Justice of the United States; Senator S. M. Cullom, 
Senator A. O. Bacon, Representative John Dalzell, Representative 
James R. Mann, Dr. James B. Angell, the Hon. John B. Henderson, 
the Hon. George Gray, and the secretary, Mr. Charles D. Walcott. 
ORDER OF BUSINKESS. 
In accordance with the previously adopted order of business, the 
following matters were next reported on by the secretary: 
Appointment of Regents—Section 5580 of the Revised Statutes 
provides that the Chief Justice of the United States shall be a 
Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. The vacancy in the office of 
Chief Justice caused by the death of Chief Justice Fuller has been 
filled by the appointment by the President of Mr. Justice Edward 
Douglass White, who therefore, under the operation of the section 
named, becomes a Regent ex officio. 
Dr. James B. Angell has been reappointed for a term of six years 
by joint resolution of Congress. ; 
Closing up of Andrews will case-—At the annual meeting held 
December 8, 1910, the board adopted a recommendation of the per- 
manent committee that all further proceedings in the Andrews will 
case be dropped. The instructions of the board have been complied 
with. 
