102 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



The secretary replied that it had been his intention to request 

 certain members of the board to prepare sketches of Chief Justice 

 Fuller's life, which might later be printed in the annual report. 



Senator Cullom added that he would like very much to have an 

 address delivered before the Regents by Justice Harlan, who above 

 all others was the most competent to prepare it. 



After further discussion, Senator Cullom moved — 



That Mr. Justice Harlan be requested to deliver, under the auspices of the 

 Board of Regents, and at such time as will best suit his convenience, an address 

 upon the life and work of the late Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller. 



The motion was carried, and Justice Harlan said that he would 

 be glad to deliver the address and that he would confer with the 

 secretary on the subject. 



ADJOURNMENT. 



There being no further business to come before the board, on mo- 

 tion the meeting adjourned and the Regents inspected the exhibit of 

 skins and mounted specimens from the African expedition collection. 



REGULAR MEETING, FEBRUARY 9, 1911. 



Present: The Hon. James S. Sherman, Vice President of the 

 United States (chancellor), in the chair; the Hon. Edward Douglass 

 White, Chief Justice of the United States; Senator S. M. Cullom, 

 Senator A. O. Bacon, Representative John Dalzell, Representative 

 James R. Mann, Dr. James B. Angell, the Hon. John B. Henderson, 

 the Hon. George Gra^y, and the secretary, Mr. Charles D. Walcott. 



ORDER OF BUSINESS. 



In accordance with the previously adopted order of business, the 

 following matters were next reported on b}' the secretaiy : 



Appointment of Regents. — Section 5580 of the Revised Statutes 

 provides that the Chief Justice of the United States shall be a 

 Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. The vacancy in the office of 

 Chief Justice caused by the death of Chief Justice Fuller has been 

 filled by the appointment by the President of Mr. Justice Edward 

 Douglass White, who therefore, under the operation of the section 

 named, becomes a Regent ex officio. 



Dr. James B. Angell has been reappointed for a term of six years 

 by joint resolution of Congress. 



Closing up of Andrews will case. — At the annual meeting held 

 December 8, 1910, the board adopted a recommendation of the per- 

 manent committee that all further proceedings in the Andrews will 

 case be dropped. The instructions of the board have been complied 

 with. 



