PROCEEDINGS OP THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 103 



Fuller memorial meeting. — It having appeared to be the wish of 

 the board at its annual meeting on December 8 last that a formal 

 meeting in memory of the late Chief Justice Fuller should be held 

 by the Regents, a resolution was then adopted inviting Justice Har- 

 lan to deliver such an address on a suitable occasion, the time of 

 which was to be left entirely to his convenience. The secretary re- 

 grets to report that Justice Harlan has written him to say that he 

 finds himself unable in the near future to comply with the wishes 

 of the board. 



After discussion, in which it was suggested that the proposed trib- 

 ute to the late chancellor take the form of a memorial to be published 

 in the annual report, the following resolution was adopted: 



Resolved, That the secretary be requested to prepare a suitable memorial of 

 tbe life and work of the late Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller, chancellor 

 of the Smithsonian Institution from 1.888 to 1010, which memorial is hereby de- 

 clared approved for inclusion in the next annual report of the Board of Regents. 



Langley memorial tablet. — At the last meeting of the board it was 

 reported that the Langley memorial tablet had met with an acci- 

 dent and would have to be remodeled. This work of repair has been 

 going on, but no photograph showing the present condition of the 

 tablet has been submitted by the sculptor. 



Tlodghins gold medal of the Institution. — The committee ap- 

 pointed by the secretary to consider whether sufficiently important 

 investigations into the phenomena of atmospheric air in relation to 

 the welfare of mankind had been made to merit the award of the 

 third Hodgkins gold medal have reported their findings with a 

 recommendation, which report is now being considered. 



Biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone. — The secretary 

 stated that the board would recall that at the late annual meeting 

 he had spoken of the organization of a biological survey of the 

 Panama Canal Zone to include studies of the life of the land and 

 waters of that region, and had explained the necessity for immediate 

 action, as the opening of the canal would mingle the waters of the 

 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which might permanently destroy the 

 possibility of a true understanding of the fauna and flora now 

 existing there. 



Since that meeting a party of naturalists designated to carry on 

 the work has reached the zone, and the collections resulting from 

 their work are already arriving. Those engaged in the survey are 

 the following: 



Prof. S. E. Meek, of the Field Museum of Natural History ; Prof. 

 Henry Pittier, of the United States Bureau of Plant Industry; Mr. 

 E. A. Goldman, of the United States Biological Survey; Mr. S. F. 

 Hildebrand, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries; Mr. E. A. 

 Schwarz and Mr. August Busck, of the United States Bureau of 



