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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  736
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can now be made.  Your Committee will be glad to answer questions in relation to these matters.

1. Since the meeting of December 8, the Committee has considered the matter referred to it at the December meeting of the Board, to wit:- the raising of an Endowment Fund, and the contract with Tamblyn ^[[&]] Brown, which was terminated by limitation on December 31, 1927.  The Acting Secretary has worked out an arrangement with Mr. John R. Ellingston, who has heretofore been employed by Tamblyn ^[[&]] Brown and who has given most effective service, so as to retain his services with the Institution as an assistant editor in handling the Smithsonian Series, and for such staff work as may be required.  The Committee is satisfied that Mr. Ellingston's services are of real importance to the Institution, and believes that a permanent arrangement along the lines suggested by Dr. Abbot should be carried out.

2. A little more than three years ago, to wit:- December 11, 1924, a vote of the Board of Regents was passed authorizing an organization known as the National Museum of Engineering to erect a building on land of the Smithsonian Institution immediately east of the Freer Gallery and behind the present building of the Smithsonian Institution.  The Executive Committee believes that the time has come for rescinding that action and is studying the best way of accomplishing that purpose. The matter will probably be ready for formal action at the next meeting of the Board of Regents.

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2. The Executive and Permanent Committees have received a proposal from Mr. Albrecht Pagenstecher relative to the erection, without cost to the Institution, of a Zeiss Planetarium, a dome representing the heavens upon which are projected stars and planets.  These planetaria have become exceedingly popular in Germany, and the proponents ask if the Smithsonian Institution would be willing to give them a piece of ground, 100 or more feet square, upon which the planetarium may be located, and authorize them to charge an admission fee. At the end of three to five years, it is estimated by the sponsors of this plan,

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