JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. XIII 



Mr. Wilson said: 



My personal relations with Dr. Goode were so pleasant and cordial that though I 

 can add nothing to what has been already said by Dr. White, Mr. Hubbard, and Sen- 

 ator Morrill, I feel at least like seconding these resolutions. I was thrown a great 

 deal with Dr. Goode in a most informal and unofficial way and I learned to have the 

 highest possible respect for him, not only as a scientific man, but as an individual. 

 The simplicity, modesty, and general kindliness of his character were always his 

 striking features, and I remember no greater shock in recent months than the 

 announcement of the death of this still young man, which I learned from an Amer- 

 ican paper as soon as I returned from abroad last summer. 



On motion, the resolutions were adopted by a rising vote. 



The Secretary said that before leaving this subject he might say tbat 

 the year had been a painful one for the Institution in the loss of other 

 people not known to the Regents, but only less essential to it than 

 Dr. Goode. Mr. K. E. Earll and others who were identified with it 

 had been thus taken away, and it had been difficult to iind persons of 

 efficiency to attend to their work. The Secretary added that he had lost 

 not only Dr. Goode, but also Mr. Winlock, who was assistant in charge 

 of the Institution, who came next to Dr. Goode in authority, and who 

 was trusted and trustworthy in every way. It had been a sad year 

 here, but he would say nothing further about its losses except that the 

 deaths included a number of employees who were also valuable in their 

 positions. 



The Chancellor stated that the appointment of an Assistant Secre- 

 tary was made by the Secretary, with the consent of the Regents; in 

 other words, the initiative, under the law, came from the Secretary. 

 He would like to hear from the Secretary about it. 



The Secretary then addressed the Board as follows: 



The Board is aware that a vacancy exists in the Assistant Secretaryship, caused 

 by the death of Dr. Goode, a like successor to whom can hardly be found. 



Under correction of the Chancellor, I will recall that while the law authorizes the 

 Secretary to, with the consent of the Board of Regents, employ assistants, he is not 

 required to employ anyone. 



In the early days of the Institution there was one Assistant Secretary in charge of 

 the library, to which there was added later by Professor Henry one in charge of the 

 Museum. The latter of these was Professor Baird, who was in turn appointed Sec- 

 retary by the Regents, and who, during a term of nearly ten years, appointed no 

 assistants until January 12, 1^87, when he received the consent of the Regents to the 

 appointment of one in charge of the exchanges, library, and publications, and 

 another in charge of the Museum. There have been, therefore, periods in the his- 

 tory of the Institution when there was but one Assistant Secretary, a long period 

 immediately preceding the present incumbency when there was none, and subse- 

 quently a brief period when there were two. The work of the Institution has 

 enormously increased, even since the death of Secretary Baird. 



In regard to subordinate positions, the power of appointment has been exercised 

 by the successive Secretaries for a period of over 40 years, and with an absence of 

 any suggestion of favoritism, partiality, or harshness, which is rare in office. In all 

 these appointments and iu every official relationship the recognition of the plenary 

 authority of the Regents, as exercised through the Secretary, has been the founda- 

 tion of good government. It is because the authority of the Board and its method 

 of action is so absolutely recognized that it has been so very rarely needed to dis- 

 play it to make it effective, and thus during ten years of the Museum's administra- 



