﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  BOARD 
  OF 
  REGENTS 
  OF 
  THE 
  SMITH- 
  

   SONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  FOR 
  THE 
  FISCAL 
  YEAR 
  ENDING 
  JUNE 
  

   30, 
  1922. 
  

  

  ANNUAL 
  MEETING, 
  DECEMBER 
  8, 
  1921. 
  

  

  Present 
  : 
  The 
  Hon. 
  Calvin 
  Coolidge, 
  Vice 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States, 
  chancellor, 
  in 
  the 
  chair 
  ; 
  Chief 
  Justice 
  William 
  H. 
  Taft 
  ; 
  Sen- 
  

   ator 
  A. 
  Owsley 
  Stanley; 
  Kepresentative 
  Frank 
  L. 
  Greene; 
  Repre- 
  

   sentative 
  John 
  A. 
  Elston 
  ; 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  Graham 
  Bell 
  ; 
  Hon. 
  George 
  Gray 
  ; 
  

   Mr. 
  John 
  B. 
  Henderson 
  ; 
  Hon. 
  Henry 
  White 
  ; 
  Mr. 
  Eobert 
  S. 
  Brook- 
  

   ings 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  secretary, 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott. 
  

  

  NEW 
  REGENT. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  stated 
  that 
  the 
  organic 
  act 
  establishing 
  the 
  Smith- 
  

   sonian 
  Institution 
  provides 
  that 
  the 
  Chief 
  Justice 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States 
  shall 
  be 
  ex 
  officio 
  a 
  regent 
  of 
  the 
  institution. 
  He 
  had 
  the 
  

   pleasure, 
  therefore, 
  of 
  announcing 
  that 
  Hon. 
  William 
  Howard 
  Taft 
  

   was 
  now 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  board. 
  

  

  ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
  OF 
  RESOLUTIONS. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  letter 
  from 
  Mrs. 
  Edward 
  Doug- 
  

   lass 
  White 
  : 
  

  

  June 
  2, 
  1921. 
  

   My 
  Dear 
  Mb. 
  Walcott 
  : 
  May 
  I 
  not 
  ask 
  you 
  to 
  convey 
  to 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  

   my 
  sincere 
  thanks 
  and 
  grateful 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  generous 
  tribute 
  to 
  my 
  be- 
  

   loved 
  husband, 
  expressed 
  in 
  their 
  resolutions, 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  which 
  you 
  were 
  so 
  kind 
  

   as 
  to 
  send 
  me. 
  

  

  Permit 
  me 
  also 
  to 
  thank 
  you 
  personally 
  for 
  the 
  kind 
  sympathy 
  conveyed 
  by 
  

   your 
  letter 
  of 
  transmittal. 
  

   Very 
  sincerely, 
  

  

  Mrs. 
  Edward 
  Douglass 
  White. 
  

  

  RESOLUTION 
  RELATIVE 
  TO 
  INCOME 
  AND 
  EXPENDITURE. 
  

  

  Judge 
  Gray, 
  chairman 
  of 
  the 
  executive 
  committee, 
  offered 
  the 
  fol- 
  

   lowing 
  resolution, 
  which 
  was 
  adopted 
  : 
  

  

  Resolved, 
  That 
  the 
  income 
  of 
  the 
  institution 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  ending 
  June 
  

   30, 
  1923, 
  be 
  appropriated 
  for 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  institution, 
  to 
  be 
  expended 
  by 
  the 
  

   secretary 
  with 
  the 
  advice 
  of 
  the 
  executive 
  committee, 
  with 
  full 
  discretion 
  on 
  the 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  secretary 
  as 
  to 
  items. 
  

  

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