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2 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
administer the trust directly, and, therefore, constituted an “establish- 
ment” whose statutory members are “the President, the Vice President, 
the Chief Justice, and the heads of the executive departments.” 
THE BOARD OF REGENTS 
During the year the following changes occurred in the personnel of 
the Board of Regents: 
The lamented death of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, on April 
22, 1946, created a vacancy in the office of Chancellor of the Board of 
Regents. 
November 23, 1945. A vacancy in the class of citizen regents, caused 
by the death of Dr. Roland S. Morris, of Pennsylvania, has not yet 
been filled. 
May 2, 1946. Dr. Vannevar Bush, citizen regent, was reappointed 
by joint resolution of Congress to succeed himself for a statutory 
term of 6 years. 
June 24, 1946. The Honorable Fred M. Vinson, on his appointment 
as Chief Justice of the United States, became ex officio a member of 
the Board of Regents. 
The roll of regents at the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1946, was 
as follows: 
Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States; members from 
the Senate—Alben W. Barkley, Wallace H. White, Jr., Walter F. 
George; members from the House of Representatives—Clarence Can- 
non, Edward E. Cox, B. Carroll Reece; citizen members, Frederic A. 
Delano, Washington, D. C., Harvey N. Davis, New Jersey, Arthur H. 
Compton, Missouri, Vannevar Bush, Washington, D. C., and Frederic 
C. Walcott, Connecticut. 
Proceedings.—The annual meeting of the Board of Regents was 
held on January 18, 1946, with the following members present: Chief 
Justice Harlan F. Stone, Chancellor; Senator Wallace H. White, Jr.; 
Representatives Edward E. Cox and B. Carroll Reece; citizen regents, 
Dr. Harvey N. Davis, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Frederic A. Delano, and 
Frederic C. Walcott; the Secretary, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, and the 
Assistant Secretary, John E. Graf. Dr. W. J. Robbins, chairman of 
the Committee on Future Policies, attended the opening of the meet- 
ing by invitation and later withdrew. 
In accordance with the resolution passed by the Board at the last 
annual meeting, the Chancellor appointed the following to serve on 
the Committee on Future Policies of the Smithsonian Institution: 
Dr. William J. Robbins (chairman), New York Botanical Garden; 
Dr. L. P. Eisenhart, American Philosophical Society; Dr. George 
Gaylord Simpson, American Museum of Natural History; Dr. Zay 
