PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 

 30, 1915. 



ANNUAL MEETING, DECEMBER 10, 1914. 



Present : The Hon. Edward D. White, Chief Justice of the United 

 States, chancellor, in the chair ; the Hon. Thomas E. Marshall, Vice 

 President of the United States ; Senator William J. Stone ; Senator 

 Henry F. Hollis; Eepresentative Maurice Connolly; Representative 

 Ernest W. Eoberts; Dr. Andrew D. "VATiite; Dr. A. Graham Bell; 

 the Hon. George Gray; Mr. John B. Henderson, jr.; the Hon. 

 Charles W. Fairbanks; and the secretary, Mr. Charles D. Walcott. 



DEATH OF SENATOR BACON. 



The secretary announced the death of Senator Bacon, who had 

 been a Eegent of the Institution since 1905, and chairman of the 

 executive committee for the last three 3'ears. 



Senator Stone submitted the following tribute to his memory: 



Augustus Octavius Bacon, doctor of laws, United States Senator from 

 Georgia, and Regent of tlie Smitlisonian Institution, died February 14, 1914, 

 in the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



His associates on the Board of Regents, assembled in annual meeting, do here 

 record their personal sorrow in the loss of a distinguished citizen, lawyer, and 

 statesman; one whose sound advice will be greatly missed by the Regents in 

 their deliberations on the affairs of the Institution, in whose development and 

 in whose plans for the advancement of science and the general welfare of 

 mankind he at all times exhibited the deepest interest. 



He was a most worthy exemplar of a gentleman, a scholar, a legislator, and 

 a councilor. 



On motion, the tribute was unanimously adopted, ordered to be 

 spread upon the records of the board, and a copy directed to be sent 

 to the family of Senator Bacon. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 



Senator Henry F. Hollis, of New Hampshire, was appointed by 

 the Vice President on March 10, 1914, to succeed the late Senator 

 Bacon. 



Mr. Charles F. Choate, jr., was reappointed for six years by joint 

 resolution of Congress, approved March 20, 1914. 

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