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in every way those conservative and dignified traditions of which I have already 

 spoken of him as almost the living embodiment; and while he did this primarily 

 because of their harmony with his own personal tendencies and convictions as to 

 their value, he did so because of his affection and reverence for the first Secretary, 

 Joseph Henry, whose pupil he had been in his youth, and with whom in middle life 

 he maintained the relation of friend and confidant. After Henry's death, Dr. Welling 

 consented to add to his already burdensome duties those of the chairman of the 

 Executive Committee, which he performed till his own death, so that he may be said 

 to have been a link between the past and present in the history of this Institution, 

 though happily not the only one, since it has preserved others in his contemporaries. 



On motion, the resolutions were unanimously adopted by a standing 

 vote. 



The Secretary then presented his printed annual report to June 30, 

 1894, and recalled to the Regents the fact that by act of Congress, 

 approved by the President March 12, 1894, section 5579 of the Revised 

 Statutes was amended to read as follows : 



That the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of Execu- 

 tive Departments are hereby constituted an establishment by the name of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, 

 and by that name shall be known and have perpetual succession, with the powers, 

 limitations, and restrictions hereinafter contained, and no other. 



As now organized, the Smithsonian Establishment consists of the 

 following ex officio members : 



Grovek Cleveland, President of the United States. 



Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice-President of the United States. 



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



Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State. 



John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War. 



Richard Olney, Attorney-General. 



Wilson S. Bissell, Postmaster-General. 



Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. 



Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior. 



J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture. 



By the same act section 5591 was amended as follows : 



The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to receive into the 

 Treasury, on the same terms as the original bequest of James Smithson, such sums 

 as the Regents may, from time to time, see fit to deposit, not exceeding, with the 

 original bequest, the sum of $1,000,000. 



Provided, That this shall not operate as a limitation on the power of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution to receive money or other property by gift, bequest, or devise, 

 and to hold and dispose of the same in promotion of the purposes thereof. 



The Secretary added that what he had otherwise said in the report 

 before the Board might almost be summarized in the statement that 

 the past year had been, in many respects, perhaps the busiest that the 

 Institution had ever known; and this both in the field of its ordinary 

 activities and in new ones. 



The progress of the Museum had been very considerable, the collec- 

 tions were never in better condition, and the contributions to science 

 derived from their study had been of more than usual extent and value. 



