2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



As organized on June 80, 1903, the Establishment consisted of the 

 following ex officio members: 



Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. 



(Vacanc}^), Yice- President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. 



John Hay, Secretary of State. 



Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Elihu Root, Secretary of War. 



Philander C. Knox, Attorney- General. 



Henry C. Payne, Postmaster- Oeneral. 



William H. Moody, Seci\4ary of the Navy . 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of Connnerce and Lahor. 



BOARD OF RP^GENTS. 



The Board of Regents consists of the Vice-President and the Chief 

 Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three members of 

 the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six 

 citizens, "two of whom shall be residents of the city of Washington 

 and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of 

 them of the same State/' 



In accordance witli a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

 Januaiy 8, 1890, by which its annual meeting occurs on the fourth 

 Wednesday of each 3^ear, the Board met on January 28, 1908, at 10 

 o'clock a. m. 



The following is an abstract of its proceedings, which will be found 

 in detail in the annual report of the Board to Congress: 



The Secretary presented his annual report of the operations of the 

 Institution and its several dependencies for the fiscal year ending 

 June 80, 1902, and the Board adopted the annual report of the execu- 

 tive committee to the same date, showing in detail the financial condi- 

 tion of the Institution. The usual resolution relative to income and 

 expenditure was adopted. . 



Senator Henderson, chairman of the permanent committee, reported 

 upon the expenditures incurred by the Secretary under the authority 

 of the Board of Regents in continuing his experiments on mechanical 

 flight. Statements were made in regard to the proposed bequest of 

 Addison T. Reid; also concerning the will of Wallace C. Andrews and 

 the status of the residuary legacy under the Hodgkins will. 



Senator Piatt, chairman of the special committee, appointed in 

 accordance with a resolution of the Board — 



"to represent to Congress the pressing necessity of additional room 

 for the proper exhibition of specimens belonging to the National 

 Museum" — 



