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January 11th, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

4. Since the last meeting of the Board, the Secretary has had some correspondence with the promoters of the proposed National Museum of Engineering, but your Committee is not at the present time ready to recommend any final action.

5. The matter of the proposed Maritime Museum and its relation to the general problem of a museum which shall adequately exhibit progress in transportation by land, sea and air, is still in abeyance.

6. In the matter of the proposition of the Zeiss Planetarium we are not ready to submit a definite proposal. If the Board were willing to authorize the creation of such a privately owned museum near the Smithsonian Institution, with a charge for admission, it is quite possible that a suitable property on which such a building might be erected lies immediately south of B Street, near the Smithsonian. Provision could be made so that the cost of the grounds and building could be amortized and recaptured by the Smithsonian on some contract to be worked out.

Your Committee would be glad to have the views of the Board, if it is agreeable to you to express an opinion.

7, Your Committee believes that provision should be made for bi-monthly meetings of the Board, omitting only the summer months. As the regular meetings provided by statute are fixed for the months of December and February, it is suggested that additional meetings be fixed for April, June and October. This would make five meetings a year. It is suggested that these meetings be held on the second Tuesday of each month, unless there is preference for retaining Thursday, which is the present statutory day for the months of December and February.

8. The Secretary of the Institution has been at work on the preparation of a statement for publication entitled "A DECLARATION of POLICY". It is considered highly desirable by the Permanent Committee that such a statement

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