﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  BOARD 
  OF 
  REGENTS 
  OF 
  THE 
  

   SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  FOR 
  THE 
  FISCAL 
  

   YEAR 
  ENDED 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1927 
  

  

  ANNUAL 
  MEETING, 
  DECEMBEE, 
  9, 
  1926 
  

  

  Present 
  : 
  The 
  Hon. 
  William 
  H. 
  Taft, 
  Chief 
  Justice 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   States, 
  chancellor; 
  The 
  Hon. 
  Charles 
  G. 
  Dawes, 
  Vice 
  President 
  of 
  

   the 
  United 
  States; 
  Senator 
  Reed 
  Smoot; 
  Senator 
  George 
  Wharton 
  

   Pepper; 
  Senator 
  Woodbridge 
  N. 
  Ferris; 
  Representative 
  Albert 
  

   Johnson; 
  Representative 
  R. 
  Walton 
  Moore; 
  Representative 
  Walter 
  

   II. 
  Newton; 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  F. 
  Choate, 
  jr.; 
  Hon. 
  Henry 
  White; 
  Mr. 
  

   Robert 
  S. 
  Brookings; 
  Hon. 
  Irwin 
  B. 
  Langhlin; 
  Mr. 
  Frederic 
  A. 
  

   Delano 
  ; 
  Mr. 
  Dwight 
  W. 
  Morrow 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  secretary. 
  Dr. 
  Charles 
  D. 
  

   Walcott. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Charles 
  G. 
  Abbot 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Alexander 
  Welmore, 
  Assistant 
  

   Secretaries 
  of 
  the 
  Institution, 
  were 
  present 
  by 
  invitation. 
  

  

  PRESENTATION 
  OF 
  BUST 
  OF 
  ALEXANDER 
  GRAHAM 
  BELL 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Walter 
  S. 
  Gifford, 
  president 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Telephone 
  & 
  

   Telegraph 
  Co., 
  in 
  presenting 
  to 
  the 
  Institution 
  a 
  bust 
  of 
  Alexander 
  

   Graham 
  Bell, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  company, 
  delivered 
  an 
  impressive 
  

   brief 
  address 
  outlining 
  the 
  relations 
  of 
  Professor 
  Bell 
  to 
  the 
  Smith- 
  

   sonian 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  telephone. 
  He 
  described 
  an 
  incident 
  ilhistrating 
  

   the 
  encouragement 
  Bell 
  had 
  received 
  at 
  a 
  critical 
  time 
  in 
  his 
  career 
  

   from 
  Joseph 
  Henry, 
  first 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  

   and 
  concluded 
  his 
  address 
  as 
  follows: 
  

  

  Alexiinder 
  Grabain 
  Bell 
  was 
  grateful 
  to 
  Joseph 
  Henry 
  for 
  that 
  eucourage- 
  

   meut 
  all 
  bis 
  life. 
  No 
  less, 
  I 
  am 
  sure, 
  was 
  he 
  grateful 
  to 
  this 
  lustitutiou. 
  So, 
  

   too, 
  with 
  us, 
  the 
  scientific 
  sous 
  and 
  heirs 
  of 
  Alexander 
  Graham 
  Bell, 
  with 
  our 
  

   reverence 
  for 
  the 
  memory 
  of 
  Joseph 
  Henry 
  and 
  our 
  appreciation 
  of 
  this 
  noble 
  

   center 
  of 
  science 
  and 
  culture, 
  I 
  assure 
  you, 
  gentlemen, 
  that 
  as 
  we 
  come 
  here 
  

   to-day 
  there 
  is 
  in 
  our 
  feeling 
  sometiiing 
  of 
  gratitude 
  for 
  that 
  vital 
  encourage- 
  

   ment 
  from 
  the 
  great 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  to 
  the 
  young 
  inventor 
  of 
  the 
  

   telephone 
  just 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  when 
  he 
  needed 
  that 
  encouragement 
  most. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Chancellor, 
  gentlemen 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smith>^onian 
  

   Institution, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Secretary, 
  in 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Telephone 
  & 
  Tele- 
  

   graph 
  Co., 
  and 
  in 
  commemoration 
  of 
  the 
  fiftieth 
  anniversary 
  of 
  tlie 
  birth 
  of 
  the 
  

   telephone, 
  I 
  present 
  to 
  you 
  this 
  bust 
  of 
  Alexander 
  Graham 
  Bell. 
  

  

  Mrs. 
  Gilbert 
  H. 
  Grosvenor, 
  daughter 
  of 
  Doctor 
  Bell, 
  then 
  unveiled 
  

   the 
  bust, 
  which 
  was 
  accepted 
  by 
  the 
  chancellor, 
  who 
  said 
  : 
  

  

  Mr. 
  President, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents, 
  I 
  beg 
  to 
  express 
  their 
  

   grateful 
  appi-eciation 
  of 
  this 
  gift, 
  so 
  appropriate 
  and, 
  I 
  may 
  say, 
  so 
  appropriately 
  

   presented. 
  

  

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