2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



As organized on June 30, 1900, the Establishment consisted of the 

 following- ex officio members : 



William McKinley, President of the United States. 



(Vacancy), Vice-President of tlie United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. 



John Hay , Secretary of State. 



Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Elihu Root, Secretary of War. 



John W. Griggs, Attorney- GenjCi'al. 



Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster- General. 



John D. Long, Secretary of the Namj. 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary (f tJie Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



BOARD OF REGENTS. 



The Board consists of the Vice-President and the Chief Justice of 

 the United States as ex officio members, three members of the Senate, 

 three members of the House of Representatives, and six citizens, 

 "two of whom shall l)e resident in the city of Washington and the 

 other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them 

 of the same State." 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

 Januaiy 8, 1890, by which its animal meeting occurs on the fourth 

 Wednesday of each year, the Board met on January 24, 1900, at 10 

 o'clock a. m. 



The following is an abstract of its proceedings, which will be found 

 in fuller detail in the annual report of the Board to Congress, though 

 reference is made later on in this report to several matters upon which 

 action was taken at that meeting. 



The Secretary^ announced the death of Dr. William Preston John- 

 ston, and Senator Piatt announced that of Vice-President Hobart. 

 The action taken b}^ the Board will be found under the head of 

 "Necrology." 



The Hon. William P. Frye. President pro tempore of the Senate, 

 was present, in accordance with custom, in place of Vice-President 

 Hobart, deceased. On January -1, 1900, the Speaker of the House 

 appointed Representatives R. R. Hitt and Robert Adams, jr., tb suc- 

 ceed themselves and Representative Hugh A. Dinsmore to succeed 

 Gen. Joseph Wheeler. 



The vSecretary presented his report of the operations of the Institu- 

 tion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, and said that the past 

 year had brought many evidences of the continued esteem in which 

 the Institution was held at home and al)road. It was certainl}^ at the 

 present moment better known in Europe than in any previous period 

 of its history. 



