2 AXXUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1922. 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



Tlie affairs of the Institution are administered by a Board of 

 Reo;ents whose membership consists of " the Vice President, the 

 Chief Justice, three Members of the Senate, and three Members of 

 the House of Representatives, together with six other persons other 

 than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the 

 city of Washington and the other four shall be inhabitants of some 

 State, but no two of them of the same State." One of the Regents 

 is elected chancellor b}^ the board; in the past the selection has 

 fallen upon the Vice President or the Chief Justice; and a suit- 

 able person is chosen by them as secretary of the Institution, who 

 is also secretary of the Board of Regents and the executive officer 

 directly in charge of the Institution's activities. 



In regard to the personnel of the board, the following changes 

 occurred during the year : Chief Justice William H. Taft became a 

 member of the board by virtue of his office; Representative Albert 

 Johnson, of the State of Washington, was appointed to succeed 

 Representative John A. Elston, who died during the year; and Dr. 

 Alexander Graham Bell retired from the board at the expiration 

 of his term. 



The roll of the Regents at the close of the fiscal year was as follows : 

 Calvin Coolidge, Vice President of the United States, chancellor; 

 Chief Justice William H. Taft; Henry Cabot Lodge, Member X)i 

 the Senate; A. Owsley Stanley, Member of the Senate; Medill Mc- 

 Cormick, Member of the Senate; Lemuel P. Padgett, Member of 

 the House of Representatives; Frank L. Greene, Member of the 

 House of Representatives; Albert Johnson. Member of the House 

 of Representatives : George Gray, citizen of Delaware ; Charles F. 

 Choate, jr., citizen of Massachusetts; John B. Henderson, citizen of 

 Washington. I). C. : Henry White, citizen of Washington. D. C, and 

 Rolieit S. Brookings, citizen of Missouri. 



The board held its annual meeting on December 8, 1921. The 

 proceedings of that meeting, as well as the annual financial report 

 of the executive committee, have been printed as usual for the use 

 of the Regents, while such important matters acted upon as are 

 of public interest are reviewed under appropriate heads in the 

 present i-eport of the secretary. A detailed description of dis- 

 bursements from the Government appropriations under the direction 

 of the Institution for the maintenance of the Xational Museum, 

 the National Zoological Park, and other branches Avill be submitted 

 to Congress by the secretary in tlie usual manner in accordance 

 with the law. 



(ilOKUAL eoNSTHKIiATIOXS. 



Desii'ing to increase the research output of the Institution, your 

 sccretarv called a meeting in MaA" of this year of the scientific 



