6 AX. VIAL EUEPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1021. 



Chief Justice, three Members of the Senate, and three Members of 

 the House of Representatives, together with six other persons other 

 than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be 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." One of the Regents is elected 

 chancellor by the board : in the past the selection has fallen on either 

 the Vice President or the Chief Justice; and a suitable person is 

 chosen by them as secretary of the Institution, who is also secretary 

 of the Board of Regents and the executive officer directly in charge 

 of the Institution's activities. 



In regard to the personnel of the board, it becomes my sad duty 

 to record the death on May 19, 1921, of its chancellor. Edward Doug- 

 lass White, Chief Justice of the United States. Resolutions in mem- 

 ory of Chancellor White were adopted by the Regents at a special 

 meeting held May 27, 1921, when the Hon. Calvin Coolidge, Vice 

 President of the United States, was elected chancellor of the In- 

 stitution. 



The only other change in the personnel of the board was the ap- 

 pointment of the Hon. A. Owsley Stanley, Senator from Kentucky. 

 as a Regent on Jaunary 5, 1921, to succeed Senator Charles S. 

 Thomas. The roll of Regents at the close of the fiscal year was as fol- 

 lows : Calvin Coolidge, Vice President of the United States, chan- 

 cellor ; Henry Cabot Lodge, Member of the Senate : A. Owsley 

 Stanley, Member of the Senate; Medill McCormick, Member of the 

 Senate; Lemuel P. Padgett, Member of the House of Representa- 

 tives; Frank L. Greene, Member of the House of Representatives; 

 John A. Elston, Member of the House of Representatives ; Alexander 

 Graham Bell, citizen of Washington, D. C. ; George Gray, citizen of 

 Delaware; Charles F. Choate, jr., citizen of Massachusetts; John B. 

 Henderson, citizen of Washington, D. C. ; Henry White, citizen of 

 Maryland; and Robert S. Brookings, citizen of Missouri. 



The board held its annual meeting on December 9, 1920. The pro- 

 ceedings of that meeting, as well as the annual financial report of the 

 executive committee, have been printed as usual for the use of the 

 Regents, while such important matters acted upon as are of public 

 interest are reviewed under appropriate heads in the present report 

 of the secretary. A detailed statement of disbursements from the 

 Government appropriations under the direction of the Institution for 

 the maintenance of the National Museum, the National Zoological 

 Park, and other branches will be submitted to Congress by the sec- 

 retary in the usual manner in accordance with the law. 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



The act establishing the Smithsonian Institution in 1846 included 

 in its functions the promotion of art as well as science. Heretofore 



