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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  We 
  are 
  indebted 
  to 
  Professor 
  Bell's 
  daughter 
  for 
  coming 
  here 
  to 
  unveil 
  this 
  

   bust, 
  a 
  bust 
  of 
  strength 
  and 
  force, 
  and 
  an 
  excellent 
  sculptural 
  representation. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Bell's 
  relation 
  to 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  has 
  been 
  close, 
  

   through 
  all 
  of 
  our 
  recollections, 
  and 
  it 
  seems 
  most 
  fitting 
  that 
  we 
  should 
  have 
  

   this 
  speaking 
  likeness 
  under 
  our 
  custody 
  where 
  we 
  can 
  exhibit 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  memorial 
  

   of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  benefactors 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  race. 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  then 
  introduced 
  the 
  sculptor, 
  Mr. 
  Victor 
  Salvatore, 
  

   thus 
  closing 
  the 
  ceremony, 
  after 
  which 
  the 
  regular 
  order 
  of 
  business 
  

   was 
  taken 
  up. 
  

  

  APPOINTMENT 
  OF 
  REGENTS 
  

  

  The 
  secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  on 
  December 
  19, 
  1925, 
  the 
  Speaker 
  

   of 
  the 
  House 
  of 
  Representatives 
  had 
  reappointed 
  Messrs. 
  Albert 
  

   Johnson, 
  of 
  Washington 
  ; 
  R. 
  Walton 
  Moore, 
  of 
  Virginia 
  ; 
  and 
  Walter 
  

   H. 
  Newton, 
  of 
  Minnesota, 
  as 
  House 
  Regents. 
  

  

  Also 
  that 
  the 
  President 
  had 
  approved 
  joint 
  resolutions 
  appointing 
  

   the 
  following 
  as 
  citizen 
  Regents 
  for 
  six 
  years 
  : 
  

  

  From 
  January 
  7, 
  1926; 
  Mr. 
  Dwight 
  W. 
  Morrow, 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey; 
  

  

  From 
  March 
  20, 
  1926: 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  F. 
  Choate, 
  jr., 
  of 
  Massachu- 
  

   setts. 
  

  

  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  EXECUTIVE 
  COMMITTEE 
  

  

  The 
  annual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  executive 
  committee 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  

   ending 
  June 
  30, 
  1926, 
  was 
  accepted 
  by 
  the 
  board. 
  

  

  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  

  

  The 
  secretary, 
  in 
  presenting 
  his 
  annual 
  report 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  

   ending 
  June 
  30, 
  1926, 
  said 
  that 
  109 
  publications 
  had 
  been 
  issued 
  since 
  

   the 
  last 
  annual 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Regents. 
  Of 
  these, 
  44 
  were 
  published 
  

   by 
  the 
  Institution 
  proper, 
  63 
  by 
  the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  and 
  2 
  by 
  the 
  

   iiureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology. 
  There 
  were 
  distributed 
  during 
  the 
  

   past 
  fiscal 
  year 
  168,932 
  copies 
  of 
  these 
  publications. 
  

  

  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  PERMANENT 
  COMMITTEE 
  

  

  The 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  permanent 
  committee 
  outlined 
  briefly 
  the 
  status 
  

   of 
  important 
  current 
  matters, 
  including 
  the 
  solar 
  radiation 
  researches, 
  

   the 
  Smithsonian- 
  Chrysler 
  Expedition, 
  the 
  Canfield 
  collection 
  of 
  min- 
  

   erals, 
  the 
  Roebling 
  collection 
  of 
  minerals, 
  the 
  Myer 
  bequest, 
  the 
  

   consolidated 
  fund, 
  the 
  Freer 
  sinking 
  fund, 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  scientific 
  

   series, 
  and 
  the 
  increase 
  of 
  endowment 
  project. 
  In 
  accepting 
  the 
  com- 
  

   mittee's 
  report, 
  the 
  board 
  adopted 
  resolutions 
  of 
  thanks 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Walter 
  

   P. 
  Chrysler, 
  to 
  the 
  family 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Frederick 
  A. 
  Canfield, 
  and 
  to 
  

   Mr, 
  John 
  A. 
  Roebling 
  for 
  their 
  generous 
  gifts 
  to 
  the 
  Institution. 
  

  

  