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  OF 
  THE 
  REGENTS 
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  MEETING 
  OF 
  FEBRUARY 
  14, 
  1929 
  

  

  Present: 
  Chief 
  Justice 
  William 
  H. 
  Taft, 
  chancellor, 
  in 
  the 
  chair; 
  

   Vice 
  President 
  Charles 
  G. 
  Dawes, 
  Senator 
  Reed 
  Smoot, 
  Senator 
  

   Joseph 
  T. 
  Robinson, 
  Senator 
  Claude 
  A. 
  Swanson, 
  Representative 
  

   R. 
  Walton 
  Moore, 
  Mr. 
  Frederic 
  A. 
  Delano, 
  Mr. 
  Irwin 
  B. 
  Laughlin, 
  

   and 
  the 
  secretary. 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot. 
  Dr. 
  Alexander 
  Wetmore, 
  assist- 
  

   ant 
  secretary, 
  was 
  also 
  present. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  President 
  had 
  approved 
  the 
  

   joint 
  resolution 
  of 
  Congress 
  reappointing 
  Mr. 
  Delano 
  and 
  Mr. 
  

   Laughlin 
  as 
  citizen 
  regents 
  for 
  the 
  ensuing 
  statutory 
  term 
  of 
  six 
  

   years 
  from 
  January 
  22, 
  1929. 
  

  

  The 
  Secretary 
  submitted 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  gifts 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  Institution 
  

   since 
  the 
  last 
  meeting. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Delano 
  brought 
  up 
  the 
  matter 
  of 
  the 
  proposed 
  contract 
  

   transferring 
  to 
  the 
  Research 
  Corporation 
  the 
  promotion 
  of 
  the 
  in- 
  

   secticide 
  patent 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Institution. 
  Under 
  the 
  terms 
  of 
  the 
  

   contract, 
  the 
  Research 
  Corporation 
  assumes 
  complete 
  responsibility 
  

   for 
  the 
  commercial 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  patent, 
  the 
  Institution 
  re- 
  

   ceiving 
  a 
  fixed 
  percentage 
  of 
  the 
  returns 
  as 
  royalty. 
  After 
  a 
  full 
  dis- 
  

   cussion 
  the 
  board 
  voted 
  to 
  approve 
  the 
  contract. 
  

  

  Assistant 
  Secretary 
  Wetmore 
  presented 
  a 
  tentative 
  program 
  for 
  

   necessary 
  additional 
  buildings 
  for 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution. 
  

  

  SPECIAL 
  MEETING 
  OF 
  MAY 
  7, 
  1929 
  

  

  Present: 
  Chief 
  Justice 
  William 
  H, 
  Taft, 
  chancellor, 
  in 
  the 
  chair; 
  

   Senator 
  Reed 
  Smoot, 
  Senator 
  Joseph 
  T. 
  Robinson, 
  Representative 
  

   R. 
  Walton 
  Moore, 
  Mr. 
  Robert 
  S. 
  Brookings, 
  Mr. 
  Frederic 
  A. 
  

   Delano, 
  Mr. 
  Irwin 
  B. 
  Laughlin, 
  Dr. 
  John 
  C. 
  Merriam, 
  and 
  the 
  

   secretary, 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  G. 
  Abbot. 
  Dr. 
  Alexander 
  Wetmore, 
  assistant 
  

   secretary, 
  was 
  also 
  present. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  on 
  March 
  4 
  last 
  Mr. 
  Dawes 
  auto- 
  

   matically 
  ceased 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  regent 
  by 
  the 
  expiration 
  of 
  his 
  term 
  as 
  

   Vice 
  President, 
  and 
  that 
  upon 
  his 
  inauguration. 
  Vice 
  President 
  

   Charles 
  Curtis 
  became 
  a 
  regent 
  ex 
  officio. 
  The 
  secretary 
  added 
  that 
  

   on 
  April 
  26 
  the 
  Vice 
  President 
  had 
  appointed 
  Senator 
  Claude 
  A. 
  

   Swanson 
  as 
  a 
  regent 
  to 
  succeed 
  himself. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  reported 
  on 
  the 
  progress 
  made 
  in 
  issuing 
  the 
  vol- 
  

   umes 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Scientific 
  Series, 
  exhibiting 
  copies 
  of 
  the 
  

   first 
  four 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  James 
  Smithson 
  Memorial 
  Edition, 
  and 
  

   stating 
  that 
  the 
  publishers 
  were 
  presenting 
  a 
  complete 
  set 
  of 
  this 
  

   edition 
  to 
  the 
  Institution. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  brought 
  up 
  the 
  offer 
  of 
  the 
  art 
  collection 
  of 
  Mr. 
  John 
  

   Gellatly, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  through 
  Mr. 
  Gari 
  Melchers, 
  chair- 
  

   man 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  Commission, 
  and 
  which 
  had 
  

  

  