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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 800
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Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board Of Regents held May 7, 1929.

HOUR OF MEETING.

The Board met at the Institution at 10:00 o'clock A. M.

PRESENT.

Chief Justice William H. Taft, Chancellor, in the chair;
Senator Reed Smoot;
Senator Joseph T. Robinson;
Representative R. Walton Moore;
Mr. Robert S. Brookings;
Mr. Frederic A. Delano;
Mr. Irwin B. Laughlin;
Mr. John C. Merriam; and
The Secretary, Dr. C. G. Abbot.
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary was also present.

APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS.

The Secretary announced that on March 4 last, Mr. Dawes automatically ceased to be a Regent by the expiration of his term as Vice President, and that upon his inauguration, Vice President Charles Curtis became a Regent exofficio.

The Secretary added that on April 26, the Vice President had appointed Senator Claude A. Swanson as a Regent to succeed himself.

NON-ATTENDANCE.

The Secretary stated that the Vice President is unable to be present owing to a meeting of the Cabinet; that Mr. Morrow and Mr. Hughes are absent from the country; and that Senator Swanson and Representative Albert Johnson and Walter H. Newton are unable to attend.
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