2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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



Elihtj Root, Secretary of State. 



George B. Cortelyotj, Secretary of the Treasury. 



William H. Taft, Secretary of War. 



Charles J. Bonaparte, Attorney -General. 



George von L. Meyer, Postmaster-General. 



Victor H. Metcalf, Secretary of the. Navy. 



James R. Garfield, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 



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 Speaker, December 3, 



1906, Representative James R. Mann in place of Representative 

 R. R. Hitt, deceased ; by joint resolution of Congress approved Janu- 

 ary 21, 1907, the Hon. George Gray to succeed himself; by appoint- 

 ment of the Vice-President on March 4, 1907, Senator S. M. Cullom 

 and Senator A. O. Bacon to succeed themselves. On January 23, 



1907, the Hon. John Dalzell was elected a member of the executive 

 committee to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Hitt. 



It is with deep regret that I have to record the death of Repre- 

 sentative Robert R. Hitt on September 20, 1906. Mr. Hitt was a 

 member of the Board of Regents on the part of the House of Rep- 

 resentatives for more than thirteen years. 



The membership of the Board at the end of the fiscal year was as 

 follows : The Hon. Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United 

 States, Chancellor; the Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice-President 

 of the United States ; Senator S. M. Cullom ; Senator Henry Cabot 

 Lodge; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative John Dalzell; Repre- 

 sentative James R. Mann ; Representative W. M. Howard ; Dr. James 

 B. Angell, of Michigan; Dr. Andrew D. White, of New York; the 

 Hon. J. B. Henderson, of Washington, D. C. ; Dr. A. Graham Bell, 

 of Washington, D. C. ; the Hon. Richard Olney, of Massachusetts; 

 and the Hon. George Gray, of Delaware. 



At a meeting of the Board of Regents held March 12, 1903, the 

 following resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the' fourth 

 Wednesday in January, regular meetings of the Board shaJl be held on the 



