The other gentlemen whom I am asking to serve on the committee are 
Mr. Richard Rathhun, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution; Doctor A. Graham Bell, for Electricity; Doctor Charles 
D. Walcott, for Geology; Professor Simon Hewcomb, for Astronomy; 
Doctor William Osier, and Doctor Theodore IT. Gill, for Biology; 
Professor Cleveland Abbe, for Meteorology; Mr. S. ¥. Stratton, for 
Physics, and Doctor Ira Remsen, for Chemistry. 
In view of the approaching meeting at Washington of the Ra- 
tional Academy of Sciences, it has occurred to me that the oppor- 
tunity thus afforded of assembling the members of the advisory 
committee will be a favorable one. 
For your information I enclose a circular, previously men- 
tioned, issued some years ago, setting forth in a general way 
the objects of the Hodgkins Fund andthe scope of the work that 
may come within its recognition. 
Trusting that you may see your way clear to accept this in- 
vitation, I am, 
Very respectfully yours 
S e c re t ary . 
Mr. W. H. Holmes, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Head Curator, Department of Anthropology, U. 3. Rational 
