December 29, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



915 



VOLNEY MOEGAN SPALDING 

 In commemoration of the twenty-eight years of 

 faithful service as teacher of botany in this uni- 

 versity (1876 to 1904) and as a token of love and 

 gratitude this tablet is erected by 100 of his 

 former students. 



Per naturae opera mentem ad humanitatem finge- 

 bat atque virtutem. Done in MCMIX. 

 It may not be known to some of Professor 

 Spalding's pupils and friends that, since re- 

 signing from the staff of the Carnegie Desert 

 Laboratory at Tucson seven years ago, Pro- 

 fessor Spalding with his wife has resided the 

 most of the time at the sanatorium at Loma 

 Linda, Calif., where, though considerably 

 crippled by rheumatism, he enjoys a measure 

 of health and happiness, and is held in the 

 highest regard by both patients and staff, with 

 whose ills he sympathizes and to whose mental 

 enjoyment he daily contributes. 



SMITHSONIAN REGENTS MEETING 



The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution assembled at the institution on 

 December 14, 1916, for their 71st annual meet- 

 ing, Chief Justice Edward D. White, chan- 

 cellor, presiding. The others present were: 

 Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall; Senators 

 Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, and 

 Henry F. Hollis, of New Hampshire; Repre- 

 sentatives Ernest W. Roberts, of Massachu- 

 setts, and James T. Lloyd, of Missouri; Dr. 

 Alexander Graham Bell, and Mr. John B. 

 Henderson, Jr., of Washington, D. C, and 

 Mr. Charles F. Choate, Jr., of Boston. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the in- 

 stitution and the administrative representa- 

 tive of the board, announced the re-appoint- 

 ment by the Speaker of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, of Scott Ferris and Ernest W. 

 Roberts, and the appointment of James T. 

 Lloyd, of Missouri, to succeed Maurice Con- 

 nolly, of Iowa, whose term in Congress had 

 expired. Announcement was also made of the 

 re-appointment of Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell, of the City of Washington, as " citizen " 

 regent, by a joint resolution of Congress. Dr. 

 Bell was also re-elected a member of the ex- 

 ecutive committee. 



The resignation of Dr. Andrew D. White, of 



Ithaca, New York, was presented and accepted. 

 A resolution was adopted by the board in ap- 

 preciation of his long and valued service, of 

 nearly thirty years. 



The report of the executive committee of 

 the board was presented for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1916, and accepted. The report 

 showed the total resources of the institution 

 to be $1,048,134.38, and the total income for 

 the past year to be $107,662.46. A summary 

 of the appropriations for the several govern- 

 mental branches of the institution for the 

 fiscal year was also made. 



The secretary's report for the fiscal year was 

 presented and accepted by the board, follow- 

 ing which he reviewed the recent work carried 

 on and outlined the principal operations now 

 under way. He stated that in September work 

 was begun on the foundation of the million- 

 dollar building donated by Charles Freer, for 

 his collections of American and Oriental art 

 presented to the institution some time ago, 

 and that present indications point to its com- 

 pletion within two years. 



A bequest by the late artist, Henry W. 

 Ranger, gives the National Gallery of Art an 

 opportunity of selecting and purchasing such 

 paintings of deceased American artists as may 

 be deemed desirable, the selected paintings 

 being paid for from the Ranger fund. 



Mention was made of the need of more 

 funds for the proper classification and public 

 installation of the National Museum's art- 

 industrial collections, believed to be the rich- 

 est and most varied of their kind in the coun- 

 try. Extensive and valuable additions to the 

 several collections of the museum were re- 

 ported as having been acquired during the 

 year. 



Among the researches of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, the secretary mentioned the exca- 

 vation and repair of a large pueblo ruin in 

 Mesa Verde National Park, conducted in co- 

 operation with the Department of the Inte- 

 rior; and field investigations among the Fox, 

 Quilente, Iroquois and Cherokee Indians. 



In the report concerning the National Zoo- 

 logical Park, the need of certain tracts of land 

 for entrances and boundaries was reported, 



