112 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
CHANGE OF DAY FOR MEETING. 
The secretary spoke of the practical impossibility of getting a full 
attendance of the Congressional Regents on Wednesday, owing to 
committee engagements. It was then suggested that Thursday be 
substituted for Wednesday, and Senator Lodge offered the following 
resolution, which was adopted: 
Resolved, That hereafter the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution shall 
hold their annual meeting on the Tuesday after the second Monday in December, and 
another meeting on the second Thursday in February. 
DARWIN CELEBRATION. 
The secretary stated that in June next the University of Cam- 
bridge would celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of 
Charles Darwin, and that he had thought of attending the com- 
memoration as the representative of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Doctor Angell suggested that it would be appropriate for the 
board to formally designate the secretary as the representative of the 
Institution at the Darwin celebration, and he offered the following 
resolution, which was adopted: 
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be designated the 
special representative of the Institution at the commemoration of the centenary of 
Charles Darwin’s birth, to be held at the University of Cambridge, England, June 22 
to 24, 1909. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The secretary spoke briefly upon the progress in the several de- 
partments of work under the direction of the Institution since the 
last meeting of the board. 
