Z REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



tlie fiscal year the Establishment consisted of the following ex officio 

 members : 



William McKinley, President of the United States. 



Garret A. Hobart, Vice- President of the United States. 



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



William R. Day, Secretary of State. 



Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War. 



John W. Griggs, Attorney- General. 



Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster- General. 



John D. Long, Secretary of the Wavy. 



Cornelius N. Bliss, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



The Establishment, which formerly held occasional meetings, has not 

 been assembled for some time. 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 



In accordance with a resolution of the Board of Regents adopted 

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

 Wednesday of each year, the Board met on January 26, 1898, at 10 

 o'clock a. m. The journal of its proceedings will be found, as hitherto, 

 in the annual report of the Board to Congress, though reference is 

 made later on in this report to several matters upon which action was 

 taken at that meeting. 



The Secretary announced to the Board the death of Mr. Gardiner 

 Greene Hubbard, a regent, and after appropriate remarks by members 

 of the Board, resolutions were unanimously adopted by a rising vote, 

 which will be found under the heading Necrology. 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was appointed a regent (to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Hubbard) by joint resolution, 

 approved by the President of the United States on January 24, 1898. 

 Gen. John B. Henderson and Dr. William Preston Johnston were 

 reappointed by the same joint resolution. Senator Morrill was 

 reappointed by the President of the Senate on March 15, 1897, and the 

 Hon. Joseph Wheeler, the Hon. R. R. Hitt, and the Hon. Robert 

 Adams, jr. (Representatives), were reappointed by the Speaker of the 

 House on December 22, 1897. 



Mr. Bell was elected a member of the executive committee, of which 

 General Henderson was reelected chairman. 



The Secretary presented his annual report of operations to June 30, 

 1897, which was accepted. Reports were also presented by General 

 Henderson as chairman of both the executive and the permanent 

 committees. 



The Secretary announced his acceptance of the resignation of Prof. 

 Charles D. Walcott as Acting Assistant Secretary in Charge of the 



