JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Annual Meeting of the Boaed of Regents. 



January 27, 1897. 



Id accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

 January 8, 1890, by which its stated annual meeting occurs on the 

 fourth Wednesday of January, the Board met to-day at 10 o'clock a. m. 



Present: The Chancellor (Mr. Chief Justice Fuller) in the chair; the 

 Hon. A. E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States; the Hon. 

 J. S. Morrill, the Hon. S. M. Cullom, the Hon. George Gray, the Hon. 

 Joseph Wheeler, the Hon. R. R. Hitt, the Hon. Robert Adams, jr., the 

 Hon. William L. Wilson, Dr. J. B. Angell, Dr. Andrew D. White, 

 the Hon. John B. Henderson, the Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, and the 

 Secretary, Mr. S. P. Langley. 



At the Chancellor's suggestion the Secretary read the minutes of the 

 last meeting in abstract. There being no objection the minutes were 

 approved. 



The Secretary presented his annual report for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1896, remarking that as the Regents had already been sui^plied 

 with copies by mail he would say nothing further upon it now. On 

 motion the report was accepted. 



Senator Henderson, as chairman of the Executive Committee, pre- 

 sented the report of the Executive Committee for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1896. On motion the report was adoj^ted. 



Senator Henderson presented the following customary resolution 

 relative to income and expenditure, which was adopted : 



Besolved, That tlie income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1898, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the Sec- 

 retary with the advice of the Executive Committee, with full discretion on the part 

 of the Secretary as to items. 



Senator Henderson, as Chairman of the Permanent Committee (com- 

 posed of the Executive Committee and the Secretary), stated that the 

 matters wbich aflect the Avery estate, and which were before the Board 

 at the last meeting, had had the committee's consideration. There was 

 no special rejiort, but he hoped to have a statement to make by the 

 next meeting. 



The Chancellor then announced that if there was no objection the 

 matters in the Avery estate would be postponed for a report at the 

 next annual meeting of the Board. 



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