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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  644
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The Secretary announced the expiration of the three year terms of the following members of the Commission:  Messrs. John E. Lodge, James Parmelee and E. W. Redfield.   On motion it was voted to recommend to the Board of Regents the election of these members for a term of four years.

Then followed the annual elections by which the present members of the Executive and Advisory Committees were elected for the ensuing year; also the present officers of the Commission were reelected for the year 1925.

William H. Holmes,
Secretary, National Gallery of Art Commission.

On motion, the report was accepted.

Mr. Moore submitted the following resolutions, which were adopted: 

RESOLVED:  That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian hereby -

(a) Accepts with regret the resignation of Mr. E. H. Blashfield as a member of the National Gallery of Art Commission;

(b) Elects Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell as a member of the Commission for the remainder of Mr. Blashfield's term, namely, to December 14, 1927;

(c) Reconsiders its action by which the membership of Mr. Daniel Chester French was vacated, and hereby restores him to membership for the full term of four years;

(d) Elects Messrs. John E. Lodge, James Parmelee, and E. W. Redfield as members for the full term of four years, their present three-year terms having expired.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

In submitting his annual report of the operations of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, the Secretary said that since the last Annual Meeting of the Regents on December 13, 1923, a total of 110 publications have been issued by the Institution and its branches.   Of this number 40 were issued by the Institution, 67 by the National Museum, and 3 by the Bureau of American Ethnology.   It is by means of these various series of publications, together with exhibits, lectures, radio talks, and correspondence, that the Institution carries out one of its primary objects, the
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