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CARNEGIE  INSTITUTION  OF  WASHINGTON.1 
MEETING  OF  INCORPORATORS  OF   THE  CARNEGIE  INSTITUTE  OF 
WASHINGTON. 
By  President  Daniel  C.  Gilman.2 
The  meeting  of  the  Incorporators  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  was 
held  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  Washington,  D.  C, 
January  4,  1902,  at  10  o'clock  a.m. 
Present :  Hon.  John  Hay,  Secretary  of  State  ;  Justice  Edward  D. 
White,  Dr.  Daniel  C.  Gilman,  Dr.  John  S.  Billings,  Hon.  Carroll  D. 
Wright  and  Dr.  Charles  D.  Walcott.  Mr.  Hay  was  chosen  chair- 
man of  the  meeting  and  Mr.  Walcott  secretary. 
On  receipt  of  notice  of  the  filing  of  the  Articles  of  Incorporation, 
Mr.  White  moved  that  the  incorporators  proceed  to  ballot  for  trus- 
tees. This  was  done,  and  the  following  persons  were  unanimously 
elected : 
Ex  officio. — The  President  ot  the  United  States,  the  President  of 
the  Senate,  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  the  Secre  - 
tary of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  the  President  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Sciences. 
Grover  Cleveland,  New  Jersey;  John  S.  Billings,  New  York; 
William  N.  Frew,  Pennsylvania ;  Lyman  J.Gage,  Illinois;  Daniel 
C.  Gilman,  Maryland  ;  John  Hay,  District  of  Columbia ;  Abram  S, 
Hewitt,  New  Jersey ;  Henry  L.  Higginson,  Massachusetts ;  Henry 
Hitchcock,  Missouri;  Charles  L.  Hutchinson,  Illinois;  William 
Lindsay,  Kentucky;  Seth  Low,  New  York;  Wayne  MacVeagh, 
Pennsylvania;  D.  O.  Mills,  New  York;  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  Pennsyl- 
vania; William  W.  Morrow,  California;  Elihu  Root,  New  York; 
John  C.  Spooner,  Wisconsin ;  Charles  D.  Walcott,  District  of 
Columbia;  Andrew  D.  White,  New  York;  Edward  D.  White, 
Louisiana  ;  Carroll  D.  Wright,  District  of  Columbia. 
FIRST  MEETING  OF  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 
The  Trustees  assembled  in  the  Diplomatic  Room,  Department  of 
State,  Washington,  D.  C,  Wednesday,  January  29,  1902,  at  half- 
past  2.    They  were  called  to  order  by  Hon.  Abram  S.  Hewitt, 
Abstracts  from  the  Year  Book,  No.  1,  1902. 
2  Owing  to  the  great  interest  attaching  to  the  work  of  the  Carnegie  Institu- 
tion of  Washington,  the  report  of  the  president  is  reprinted  from  Science,  Janu- 
ary 30,  1903,  for  the  benefit  of  our  readers. 
