PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF EEGENTS. XIX 



REQULAB MEETING OF MARCH 6, 1906. 



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

 Vice-President, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks; Senator Henry Cabot 

 Lodge ; Senator A. O. Bacon ; Kepresentative Robert Adams, jr. ; 

 Representative AY. M. Howard; Dr. Andrew D. AMiite; Dr. A. Gra- 

 ham Bell, and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun. 



DEATH or SECRETARY LANGLEY. 



The Chancellor announced the death of Secretary Langley, at 

 Aiken, South Carolina, on February 27, 1906, and designated the 

 Vice-President and Senator Lodge as a committee to draft a suitable 

 minute to be spread upon the records and to be transmitted to the 

 family of Mr. Langley. The following resolution w^as subsequently 

 adopted by a rising vote : 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution express 

 their profound sorrow at the death on February 27, 1006, of Samuel Pierpont 

 Langley, Secretary of the Institution since 1887, and tender to the I'ehitives of 

 Mr. Langley their sincere sympathy in their bereavement ; 



That in the death of Mr. Langley this Institution has lost a distinguished, 

 efficient and faithful executive officer, under whose administration the interna- 

 tional influence of the parent Institution has been greatly increased, and by 

 whose personal efforts two important branches of work have been added to its 

 care — the National Zoological Park and the Astrophysical Observatory ; 



That the scientific world is indebted to Mr. Langley for the invention of 

 important apparatus and instruments of precision, for numerous additions to 

 knowledge, more especially for his epoch-making inventions in solar physics, and 

 for his efforts in placing the important subject of aerial navigation upon a sci- 

 entific basis ; 



That all who sought the truth and cultivated science, letters, and the flue arts, 

 have lost through his death a coworker and a sympathizer; 



That the executive committee be requested to arrange for a memorial meeting 

 to be held in Washington ; 



That Dr. Andrew D. White be invited to prepare a suitable memorial which 

 shall form a part of the records of this Board ; 



That the expenses of the funeral of Mr. Langley be provided for out of the 

 income of the Institution. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENT. 



The Chancellor announced the reappointment of Mr. Richard 

 Olney as a Regent by joint resolution of Congress approved February 

 23, 1906. 



MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. 



The minutes of the annual meeting held January 24, 1906, were 

 read in abstract and approved. 



