40 REPOET OF THE SECRETARY. 



16, 1907. An appreciative account of his career will be given in the 

 annual report on the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Paul Edmond Beckwith. Assistant Curator of History in the Na- 

 tional Museum, died on June 27, 1007. A sketch of his career is given 

 in the report on the Museum. 



LANGLEY MEMORIAL MEETING. 



On December 3, 1906, a meeting in memory of the late Secretary 

 Samuel P. Langley, was, in accordance with a resolution of the Board 

 of Regents, held in the lecture hall of the National Museum. The 

 Chancellor of the Institution, the Hon. Melville W. Fuller, Chief 

 Justice of the United States, presided, and after preliminary re- 

 marks introduced the speakers: The Hon. Andrew D. White, who 

 presented the memoir on behalf of the Board of Regents ; Prof. E. C. 

 Pickering, director of Harvard College Observatory, who described 

 Mr. Langley's contributions to astronomy and astrophysics; and Oc- 

 tave Chanute, esq., of Chicago, who spoke on Mr. Langley's contribu- 

 tions to aerodynamics. 



The addresses delivered on that occasion, together with a bibliog- 

 raphy of the published works of Mr. Langley, have been issued by the 

 Institution in the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 

 and also in a special edition. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Chas. D. Walcott, Secretary. 



