2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



E. A. Hitchcock. As organized at the end of the fiscal year, the 

 Establishment consisted of the following ex officio members. 



William McKinley, President of the United States. 



Garret A. }1o^krt ^Vice-President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United Stoies. 



John Hay, Secretar^y of State. 



Lyman J. Gage, Secu'etary of the Treasury. 



Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War. 



John W. Griggs, Attorney- General. 



Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster -General. 



John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. 



E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 



flAMES Wilson, Secretary of Ag ricidtiire. 



The Establishment, which formerly held occasional meetings, has 

 not been assembled for some time. 



the board of RE(}ENTS. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

 January 8, 1890, by which its annual meeting occurs on the fourth 

 Wednesday of each year, the Board met on January 25, 1899, at 10 

 o'clock a. m. The journal of its proceedings will be found, as hitherto, 

 in the annual report of the Board to Congress, though reference is 

 made later on in this report to several matters upon which action was 

 taken at that meeting. 



The Secretary announced the death of the Hon. Justin S. Morrill, 

 and after appropriate remarks by several of the Regents, the follow- 

 ing resolutions were adopted by a rising vote. 



Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are 

 called upon to mourn the death, on December 28, 1898, of Justin 

 Smith Morrill, for fifteen years a member of the Board, and to some 

 members of it a still older colleague in the Senate of the United 

 States: 



Resolved., That the Board desire to place on record the expression 

 of their sense of the exceptional loss they have sustained in the death 

 of their venerable colleague; and that they unite with their fellow- 

 citizens throughout the land in recognizing the great services of 

 Senator Morrill to the whole country during a public career of forty- 

 three y^ears in Congress, where, amid other great national services, his 

 public life in the special domain of education alone was the most 

 important of that of any single American. With all these duties, his 

 time, his ripened knowledge of practical affairs, and his counsel, were 

 alwa^'s at the service of the Smithsonian Institution, where no mem- 

 ber of this Board represented its interests in Congress more persist- 

 ently or more effectually than he. 



Resolved., That by his personal character, no less than by his mental 

 endowments, he endeared himself to all his associates on this Board, 



