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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 648
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being no objection, the Chairman declared the minutes approved. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RESOLUTION [[underlined]] IN RE [[/underlined]] DEATH OF SENATOR LODGE.

The Secretary stated that the Board had adopted resolutions at their Annual Meeting on December 11, in relation to the death of Senator Lodge, and he read the following letter from the Senator's son, Mr. John E. Lodge:

December 15th, 1924.

My dear Dr. Walcott:

On behalf of my family and myself, I beg that you will convey to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, our sincere gratitude for the resolutions of appreciation and sympathy adopted by them in recognition of my father's services and death.  The kindly feelings they have recorded and transmitted are very welcome to us at this time. 

With thanks to you personally, I am
Very truly yours,

(Signed) J. E. Lodge.

INCREASE OF ENDOWMENT.

Mr. Delano on behalf of the Executive Committee submitted the following:

To the Board of Regents.

The Executive Committee was directed by the Board under a resolution adopted at the Annual Meeting December 11, 1924, to carefully consider the plan proposed by Messrs. Tamblyn & Brown for increasing the endowment of the Smithsonian Institution by One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) and to report thereon with recommendations at this meeting.   After careful consideration of the matter by the Executive Committee, the Secretary addressed a letter to the Attorney General, through the President, which, with the Attorney General's reply is hereto annexed, showing that there is no legal impediment in the way of engaging Messrs. Tamblyn & Brown for the services indicated:  
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