PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 

 JUNE 30, 1913. 



ANNUAL MEETING DECEMBER 12, 1912. 



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

 States, chancellor, in the chair; Senator S. M. CuUom; Senator 

 Henry Cabot Lodge; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative John 

 Dalzell; Representative Scott Ferris; Representative Irvin S. Pep- 

 per; Dr. Andrew D. '\¥liite; Dr. Alexander Graham Bell; Mr. 

 Charles F. Choate, jr. ; Mr. John B. Henderson, jr. ; the Hon. Charles 

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



SELECTION OF TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. 



The secretary, in the absence of a presiding officer, called the meet- 

 ing to order. 



On motion, the Chief Justice was invited to the chair. 



ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH OF CHANCELLOR. 



The secretary announced the death of Vice President Sherman, 

 chancellor of the Institution. 



Senator Lodge submitted the following resolutions, which were 

 unanimously adopted: 



Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have received 

 the sad intelligence of the death on October 30, 1912, of James Schoolcraft 

 Sherman, A^ice President of the United States and chancellor of the Institu- 

 tion : Therefore be it 



Resolved, That in the passing awaj' of this distinguished official the country 

 has lost a man whose unsullied public career and blameless private life marked 

 him as one of the best exemplars of the highest type of American patriotism 

 and citizenship; vs^hile this Institution has been deprived of the association of 

 a regent and presiding officer whose loyalty to its purposes and zeal in its inter- 

 ests have been an inspiration to his colleagues ; 



Resolved, That we tender to the family of Mr. Sherman our respectful and 

 sincere sympathy in their great bereavement ; 



Resolved, That an engrossed copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the 

 family of the late chancellor. 



ELECTION OF CHANCELLOR. 



On motion, it was 



Resolved^ That the Chief Justice of the United States be elected 

 chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution. 



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