PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR THE YEAR 

 ENDING JUNE 30, 1906. 



At a meeting held March 12, 1903, the Board of Regents adopted 

 the following resolution : 



Resolved, That, iu addition to tlie in-escribed meeting lield on tlie ftmrtli 

 Wednesday in January, regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the 

 Tuesday after the first Monday in December and on the Oth day of March, 

 unless that date falls on Sunday, when the following Monday shall be sub- 

 stituted. 



In accordance with this resolution, the Board met at 10 o'clock 

 a. m. on December 5, 1905, and on January 24 and March 6, 190G. A 

 special meeting was also held on May 16, 1906. 



BEGULAR MEETING OF DECEMBER 5, 1905. 



Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Rep- 

 resentative R. R. Hitt, Representative Robert Adams, jr.. Represent- 

 ative Hugh A. Dinsmore, Dr. Andrew D. AMiite, the Hon. John B. 

 Henderson, the Hon. George Gray, and the Acting Secretary, Mr. 

 Richard Rathbun. 



The Acting Secretary announced that the Secretarj^ was unable to 

 be present on account of illness. 



MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. 



The minutes of the meeting held March 6. 1905, were read in 

 abstract and approved. 



DEATH or SENATOR O. H. PLATT. 



The Chancellor said : " It becomes my sad duty to bring to the 

 attention of the Board a matter which is undoubtedly in the minds of 

 us all — the departure of our friend and late colleague, Orville H. 

 Piatt. He died in the midst of his labors, cut like a diamond with its 

 own dust. In view of his long and eminent career, and of the many 

 years of faithful, intelligent, and useful service rendered this Insti- 

 tution, I suggest that we put upon our records a minute expressive of 

 our sense of loss." 



Judge Gray then offered the following resolutions, which wei^e 

 unanimousl}^ adopted : 



Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is called upon 

 to mourn the death, on April 21, 190.5. of Orville Hitchcock Piatt, a member of 

 the Board since 1899; 



Be it resolved, That the Regents give expression to their sense of loss in the 



