PKOCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. XIII 



son, chairman of the executive committee, and others, the following 

 resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That the matter of the Karr defalcations he referred to the execu- 

 tive committee with a request that they will consider it fully and make report 

 at the next meeting of the Board. 



NEW BUILDING FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The Acting Secretary reported progress in the construction of 

 the new building for the National Museum. The first stone was laid 

 on August 21, 1005, and the walls and piers of the basement Avere 

 apiaroaching completion. The steel girders for the main floor Avere 

 at hand, and it was expected that the walls of another story would ba 

 finished before the end of the fiscal year. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF JANUARY 24, 1906. 



Present: INIr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Sen- 

 ator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator A. O. Bacon, Representative Rob- 

 ert Adams, jr., Representative AV. M. Howard, Dr. J. B. Angell, the 

 Hon. Richard Olney, the Hon. George Gray, Dr. A. Graham Bell, 

 and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 



The Chancellor announced the appointment of Regents, as fol- 

 lows : 



By the Vice President, on the part of the Senate, December 7, 1905 : 

 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in place of Senator Orville H. Piatt, 

 deceased ; and Senator A. O. Bacon to succeed Senator Francis M. 

 Cockrell, whose term of service in the Senate had expired. 



By the Speaker, on the part of the House of Representatives, 

 December 13, 1905 : Representatives R. R. Hitt and Robert Adams, 

 jr., to succeed themselves, and Representative W. M. Howard to 

 succeed Mr. Hugh A. Dinsmore, whose term as Representative had 

 expired. 



MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. 



The minutes of the meeting held December 5, 1905, were read in 

 abstract and approved. 



THE secretary's ABSENCE. 



The Chancellor read a letter from the Secretary explaining that ill- 

 ness would prevent his attendance at the meeting, and asking the 

 indidgence of the Board for his absence from his post. The Secre- 



