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gress for legislation to have the building project included in the 

 program now being formulated for prospective buildings. 



On motion the report was accepted. 



Senator Lodge offered the following resolution, which was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution hereby 

 elects Messrs. Herbert Adams, Gari Melchers, and Charles Moore as members 

 of the National Gallery of Art Commission for the full term of four years, 

 their present one-year terms having expired December 14, 1922. 



NEW BUILDING 



The secretary spoke of the need of space for the proper installa- 

 tion and exhibit of the Institution's art and history collections, 

 and expressed the hope that a new building would be provided to 

 meet this need. No formal action was asked. 



FREER GALLERY OF ART 



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Work is being pushed as rapidly as possible in preparing the 

 collections, which it is hoped will be opened to the public in the 

 coming spring. 



EXPEDITIONS 



Through the generosity of Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia, 

 Pa., Mr. Charles M. Hoy continued his work of collecting for the 

 Museum specimens of the very interesting fauna of Australia. The 

 work was terminated during the winter and Mr. Hoy returned to 

 the United States in May, 1922. The specimens received during the 

 year bring the total up to 1,179 mammals, including series of 

 skeletal and embryological material; 928 birds with 41 additional 

 examples in alcohol, and smaller collections of reptiles, amphibians, 

 insects, marine specimens, etc. 



Dr. Abbott's unfailing interest in the national collections is shown 

 by the fact that he has now arranged to send Mr. Hoy to China for 

 the purpose of obtaining vertebrates from certain especially im- 

 portant localities in the Yangtze Valley, a region with which Mr. 

 Hoy has been familiar for many years. 



Acknowledgment is made of Doctor Abbott's generosity in financ- 

 ing previous explorations, and it is thought proper to state that up 

 to date he has contributed $31,500 for the expenditions to Borneo, 

 Celibes, Australia, and China, in addition to which he has con- 

 tributed largely from the results of his personal efforts in Haiti and 

 elsewhere. 



In the summer of 1921 Mr. A. de C. Sowerby returned to China 

 to continue the work of exploration interrupted by the war. This 



