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of the Institution be set apart for a reserve fund 

 during the fiscal year 1902-'03. 



Amendments to the by-laws were then 

 considered, and the date of the annual 

 meeting was changed from November to 

 the second Tuesday of December, beginning 

 with the year 1903. By-laws were also 

 adopted providing that the fiscal year of 

 the Institution shall be from November 

 first to October thirty-first, inclusive, and 

 that there shall be a finance committee 

 consisting of three members of the Board, 

 to be elected by the Board and to hold 

 office until their successors are elected. The 

 duty of such finance committee shall be to 

 consider and recommend to the Board of 

 Trustees such measures as it may believe 

 will promote the financial interests of the 

 Institution. The Board then proceeded to 

 the choice of the finance committee, and 

 elected Messrs. Gage, Mills and Higginson. 



The following minute relative to the 

 death of Mr. Henry Hitchcock was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Higginson and adopted by 

 the Board: 



The death of Mr. Henry Hitchcock has deprived 

 this Board of Trustees of a cultured and wise 

 counsellor, a progressive leader, and a valued 

 associate. Mr. Hitchcock stood for all that was 

 noble in manhood and the development of man. 

 His every effort was to serve any cause with 

 which he was connected with all the power and 

 ability he possessed. _ We tender to the mem- 

 bers of his bereaved family sincere sympathy, 

 and place this resolution in our minutes as a 

 permanent recored of our appreciation and esteem. 



The Board then proceeded to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Hitch- 

 cock. Mr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock was 

 nominated and unanimously elected. 



PROCEEDINGS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Organization. — At its first meeting the 

 committee organized by electing Mr. Gil- 

 man chairman and Mr. Walcott secretary. 

 At the same time lots were drawn for the 

 terms of service of members, three to ex- 

 pire with the annual meeting in 1903, two 



in 1904 and two in 1905. The result of 

 the drawing was as follows: 

 Terms expiring in December, 



1903, Oilman, Mitchell, Wright; 1904, Billings, 

 Walcott; 1905, Hewitt, Root. 



Advisory Committees. — As soon as it 

 was organized the executive committee, in 

 compliance with the instructions of the 

 Trustees, began an investigation to deter- 

 mine what work should be entered upon, 

 in the immediate future, by the Institu- 

 tion. Its first step consisted in the appoint- 

 ment of advisory committees. Eighteen 

 such committees were appointed, as fol- 

 lows: 



Anthropology: William H. Holmes, Chief, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, and Head Curator, 

 Department of Anthropology, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, Washington, D. C, Chairman ; Franz Boas, 

 Curator, Department of Anthropology, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. ; 

 George A. Dorsey, Field Columbian Museum, Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



Astronomy: E. C. Pickering, Professor of As- 

 tronomy and Director of Harvard Observatory, 

 Cambridge, Mass., Chairman; Lewis Boss, Director 

 of Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. ; George E. 

 Hale, Director of Yerkes Observatory, Williams 

 Bay, Wis.; S. P. Langley, Secretary Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D. C; Simon Newcomb, 

 late Superintendent of Nautical Almanac, Wash- 

 ing-ton, D. C. 



Bihliography : Herbert Putnam, Librarian of 

 Congress, Washington, D. C, Chairman; Cyrus 

 Adler, Librarian, Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; J. S. Billings, Director New York 

 Public Library, New York, N. Y. 



Botany: Frederick V. Coville, Botanist, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, Ghair- 

 maai; N. L. Britton, Superintendent, New York 

 Botanical Garden, New York, N. Y. ; John M. 

 Macfarlane, Professor of Botany, University of 

 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Gifford Pinchot, 

 Forester, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Chemistry : Ira Remsen, Professor of Chemistry 

 and President of Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md., Chairman; T. W. Richards, Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. ; Edgar F. Smith, Professor of Chem- 

 istry, Universiiy of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



