PEOCEEDINGS OF EEGENTS. 137 



has already, since the proposal was made in October last, excited 

 great interest in American scientific and educational circles. 



" The general committee consists of : Former President James B. 

 Angell, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; former President 

 Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University; William Eutherford 

 Mead, the New York architect; Mitchell Carroll, of Washington, 

 D. C. ; Charles L. Hutchinson, of Chicago, 111. ; J. Pierpont Morgan, 

 of New York City; Charles Henry Butler, of Washington, D. C. ; 

 Mr. Frederick McCormick, of Pekin, who organized in China the 

 first movement for the investigation and protection of Chinese monu- 

 ments ; Henry White, of Washington, D. C. ; Francis W. Kelsey, of 

 the University of Michigan ; Eugene Meyer, jr., of New York City ; 

 Willard D. Straight, secretary of the American group of banks in 

 China; Secretary Charles D. Walcott, of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion; Harry L. Wilson, of Johns Hopkins University; Charles L. 

 Freer, of Detroit, Mich. 



" Dr. Walcott was elected chairman of the general committee and 

 Mr. Butler its secretary. 



" To carry out the program looking to the formation of the Amer- 

 ican School of Archeology on the soil of China the Hon. Edward T. 

 Williams, first secretary and charge d'affaires of the American lega- 

 tion in Pekin; Dr. Charles D. Tenney, American consul at Nan- 

 king ; and the American minister to China, ex officio, were selected to 

 head the advisory committee in China. 



" Several American archeologists appeared before the committee 

 during its discussions, including Mr. Edgar L. Hewett, Mr. Charles 

 T. Currelly, and Mr. Langdon Warner. 



'' Langdon Warner was selected to make a preliminary survey in 

 the Chinese Republic, to cover a period of a year or a year and a 

 half, and to report at the next annual meeting of the general com- 

 mittee on the advisability of establishing the American School of 

 Archeology in China." 



SPECIAL MEETING. THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1913. 



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

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

 President of the United States ; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge ; Sena- 

 tor A. O. Bacon; Dr. Alexander Graham Bell; the Hon. George 

 Gray; Mr. John B, Henderson, jr.; and the secretary, Mr. Charles 

 D. Walcott. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS. 



The secretary announced the appointment, by the Vice President, 

 of Senator A. O. Bacon and Senator William J. Stone as Regents of 

 the Institution. 



