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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  697
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DEATH OF SECRETARY WALCOTT

The Chancellor feelingly announced the death of the Secretary, and after remarks, a motion was passed for the appointment by the Chancellor of a Committee on Resolutions.  He thereupon appointed Senator Pepper, Mr. Delano, and Mr. Moore.

After deliberation, the Committee presented the following resolutions which on motion were adopted:-

The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have received the intelligence of the death, on February 9, 1927, of Charles Doolittle Walcott, Secretary of the Institution since 1907. It is thereupon

RESOLVED; That the Board record both their sense of personal bereavement and their keen realization of the loss sustained in the death of their distinguished Secretary, whose geological researches and varied scientific attainments have brought him eminence in the world of scholarship, and whose administration as the executive officer of the Institution has made it more than ever a predominant force in scientific thought and achievement and enlarged its influence for the attainment of the Founder's purpose - "the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men".

RESOLVED; That the Executive Committee be requested to arrange for a memorial meeting to be held in Washington, and for the submission at such meeting of a suitable record of the life and work of Dr.Walcott.

RESOLVED; That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Chancellor to Dr. Walcott's family, with an expression of the sense of the heavy loss sustained by the Institution, and of the sympathy of the Regents with the family in this, the hour of their bereavement.

MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING.

The Acting Secretary stated that these had been furnished in type-written form to the Regents, and upon the approval of a majority of the Board had been placed in the permanent record.  The Chancellor, in the absence of objection, then declared the minutes approved.

APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS.

The Acting Secretary announced that the Vice President had made the following appointments of Regents, effective March 4, 1927: -

Senator Reed Smoot, to succeed himself;

Senator Joseph T. Robinson, to succeed Senator George Wharton Pepper.
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