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  ANNUAL 
  ItEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  Resolved, 
  That 
  u 
  committee 
  is 
  hereby 
  created, 
  consisting 
  of 
  the 
  members 
  

   of 
  the 
  executive 
  committee 
  and 
  two 
  other 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  board, 
  to 
  be 
  desig- 
  

   nated 
  by 
  the 
  chancellor, 
  to 
  consider 
  the 
  future 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  

   Institution 
  and 
  to 
  submit 
  its 
  recommendations 
  to 
  tlie 
  board 
  at 
  its 
  next 
  meeting. 
  

  

  The 
  charxcellor 
  thereupon 
  appointed 
  as 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  this 
  special 
  

   committee 
  Messrs. 
  Choate, 
  Delano, 
  Moore, 
  Morrow, 
  and 
  White. 
  

  

  REGULAR 
  MEETING, 
  EEBRUARY 
  10, 
  1927 
  

  

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

   United 
  States, 
  chancellor; 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Charles 
  G. 
  Dawes, 
  Vice 
  President 
  

   of 
  the 
  United 
  States; 
  Senator 
  Keed 
  Smoot; 
  Senator 
  Geor^ije 
  Wliarton 
  

   Pepper 
  ; 
  Senator 
  Woodbridj^e 
  N. 
  Ferris 
  ; 
  Representative 
  Albert 
  John- 
  

   son; 
  Representative 
  R. 
  Walton 
  Moore; 
  Representative 
  Walter 
  H. 
  

   Newton; 
  Mr. 
  Frederic 
  A. 
  Delano; 
  Hon. 
  Irwin 
  B. 
  Laughlin; 
  Mr. 
  

   Dwight 
  W. 
  Morrow 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  acting 
  secretary. 
  Dr. 
  Charles 
  G. 
  Abbot. 
  

  

  DEATH 
  OF 
  SECRETARY 
  WALCOTT 
  

  

  The 
  chancellor 
  feelingly 
  announced 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  the 
  secretary, 
  

   and 
  after 
  remarks, 
  appointed 
  Senator 
  Pepper, 
  Mr. 
  Delano, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  

   Moore 
  as 
  a 
  committee 
  on 
  resolutions. 
  

  

  The 
  committee 
  submitted 
  the 
  following 
  resolutions 
  which 
  on 
  mo- 
  

   tion 
  were 
  adopted 
  : 
  

  

  The 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  have 
  received 
  the 
  in- 
  

   telligence 
  of 
  the 
  death, 
  on 
  February 
  9, 
  1927, 
  of 
  Charles 
  Doolittle 
  Walcott, 
  Sec- 
  

   retary 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  since 
  1907. 
  It 
  is 
  thereupon 
  

  

  Resolved, 
  That 
  the 
  board 
  record 
  both 
  their 
  sense 
  of 
  personal 
  bereavement 
  

   and 
  their 
  keen 
  realization 
  of 
  the 
  loss 
  sustained 
  in 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  their 
  distin- 
  

   guished 
  secretary, 
  whose 
  geological 
  researches 
  and 
  varied 
  scientific 
  attainments 
  

   have 
  brought 
  him 
  eminence 
  in 
  the 
  world 
  of 
  scholarship, 
  and 
  whose 
  administra- 
  

   tion 
  as 
  the 
  executive 
  ofiicer 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  has 
  made 
  it 
  more 
  than 
  ever 
  a 
  

   predominant 
  force 
  in 
  scientific 
  thought 
  and 
  achievement, 
  and 
  enlarged 
  its 
  in- 
  

   fluence 
  for 
  the 
  attainment 
  of 
  the 
  founder's 
  purpose 
  — 
  " 
  the 
  increase 
  and 
  diffusion 
  

   of 
  knowledge 
  among 
  men." 
  

  

  Resolved, 
  Tliat 
  the 
  executive 
  committee 
  be 
  requested 
  to 
  arrange 
  for 
  a 
  me- 
  

   morial 
  meeting 
  to 
  be 
  held 
  in 
  Washington 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  submission 
  at 
  such 
  meet- 
  

   lug 
  of 
  a 
  suitable 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  life 
  and 
  work 
  of 
  Doctor 
  Walcott. 
  

  

  Resolved, 
  That 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  these 
  resolutions 
  be 
  transmitted 
  by 
  the 
  chancellor 
  

   to 
  Doctor 
  Waleott's 
  family, 
  with 
  an 
  expression 
  of 
  the 
  sense 
  of 
  the 
  heavy 
  loss 
  

   sustained 
  by 
  the 
  Institution, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  sympathy 
  of 
  the 
  Regents 
  with 
  the 
  

   family 
  in 
  this 
  the 
  hour 
  of 
  their 
  bereavement. 
  

  

  APPOINTMENT 
  OF 
  REGENTS 
  

  

  The 
  acting 
  secretary 
  announced 
  that 
  the 
  Vice 
  President 
  had 
  made 
  

   the 
  following 
  appointments 
  of 
  Regents, 
  effective 
  March 
  4, 
  1927 
  : 
  

  

  Senator 
  Reed 
  Smoot, 
  to 
  succeed 
  himself. 
  

  

  Senator 
  Joseph 
  T. 
  Robinson, 
  to 
  succeed 
  Senator 
  George 
  Wharton 
  

   Pepper, 
  

  

  