4 REPORT OF THE ACTING SECRETARY. 



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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



By act of Congress approved August 10, 1846, the Smithsonian 

 Institution was created an Establishment, Its statutory members 

 are "the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the 

 heads of Executive Departments." 



As organized on June 30, 1906, the Establishment consisted of the 

 following ex officio members: 



Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Stazes. 



Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice-President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. 



Elihu Root, Secretary of State. 



Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. 



William H. Taft, Secretary of War. 



William H. Moody, Attorney -General. 



George B. Cortelyou, Postmaster- General. 



Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy. 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce and Lahor. 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



The Board of Regents consists of the Vice-President and the 

 Chief Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three mem- 

 bers of the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, 

 and six citizens, " two of whom shall be residents of the city of 

 Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, 

 but no two of them of the same State." 



The following appointments and reappointments of Regents were 

 made during the year: By appointment of the Vice-President on 

 December 7, 1905, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in place of Senator 

 Orville H. Piatt, deceased, and Senator A. O. Bacon to succeed 

 Senator Francis M. Cockrell, whose term of service in the Senate had 

 expired; by appointment of the Speaker on December 13, 1905, 

 Representatives R. R. Hitt and Robert Adams, jr., to succeed them- 

 selves, and Representative W. M. Howard in place of the Hon. Hugh 

 A. Dinsmore, whose term as RepresentatiA^e had expired. By joint 

 resolutions of Congress approved February 23 and April 23, 1906, 

 respectively, the Hon. Riclia]"d Ohiey and Dr. Andrew D. White w^re 

 apj)(>iii(('(l Regciils for terms of six years eaeli. 



