CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT 



Memorial Meeting, January 24, 1928 



(With One Plate) 



At the meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution on February 10, 1927, the Chancellor announced the death, on 

 February 9, 1927, of Charles Doolittle Walcott, Secretary of the 

 Institution from 1907 to 1927. The following resolutions were 

 adopted by the board : 



The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have received the 

 intelligence of the death, on February 9, 1927, of Charles Doolittle Walcott, 

 Secretary 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 officer 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, That the executive committee be requested to arrange for a 

 memorial meeting to be held in Washington and for the submission at such 

 meeting 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 Walcott'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. 



In accordance with these resolutions, a memorial meeting was held 

 in the auditorium of the U. S. National Museum on January 24, 1928, 

 which was attended by a large number of Dr. Walcott's friends and 

 official associates. The Chancellor of the Institution, the Honorable 

 William PI. Taft, Chief Justice of the United States, presided. 



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