138 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Senator Bacon was reelected chairman of the executive committee. 

 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AWARDS OF THE LANGLEY MEDAL. 



Beaulietjsmee, February 17, 191S. 

 Charles Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: 

 I am very sensible of the great honor that you announce to me, and thank 

 you, begging you to transmit an expression of my appreciation to the council. 



GusTAVE Eiffel. 



CuRTiss Aviation Camp, North Island, 



San Diego, Cah, February 2Jj, 1913. 

 Mr. C. D. Walcott, 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



Dear Sir : I am just in receipt of a communication from the office advising 

 me of the recent award of the Langley medal. 



This award is indeed a surprise to me and I greatly appreciate being the 

 recipient. 



I will plan to be in Washington on May 6. 



Yours, sincerely, G. H. Cxirtiss. 



BORNEO EXPEDITION. 



Announcement was made at the board meeting of February 8, 

 1912, that Dr. William L. Abbott, a collaborator of the Institution 

 and Museum for many years, had given the Institution $5,000 for 

 use in continuing certain collections in Borneo. 



Dr. Abbott has recently sent a check for an additional $3,000 for 

 the work. 



THE LANGLEY AERODYNAMICAL LABORATORY. 



The committee on the Langley aerodynamical laboratory ap- 

 pointed by the Board of Regents at the meeting of February 13, sub- 

 mitted its report, and after full discussion the following resolutions 

 were adopted : 



Whereas the Smithsonian Institution possesses a laboratory for the study of 

 questions relating to aerodynamics, which has been closed since the death of 

 its director, the late Dr. S. P. Langley, formerly Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution ; and 

 Whereas it is desirable to foster and continue, in the institution with which he 

 was connected, the aerodynamical researches which he inaugurated : 

 Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution hereby 

 authorizes the Secretary of the Institution, with the advice and approval of 

 the executive committee, to reopen the Smithsonian Institution laboratory for 

 the study of aerodynamics, and take such steps as in his judgment may be 

 necessary to provide for the organization and administration of the laboratory 

 on a permanent basis; 



That the aerodynamic laboratory of the Institution shall be known as the 

 Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory; 



