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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 878
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be filled by the selection of George B. McClellan to succeed W.K.Bixby; Thomas Cochran to succeed James Parmelee; and Paul Manship to succeed Daniel Chester French.

Mr. Delano here said that he would like to bring up a matter for the Board's consideration; that he had felt that the publications of the Institution did not compare favorably with those of private organizations dependent on public bequests and support - not in their matter but in paper, printing, illustrations and binding - and he would suggest that some steps be taken to consider the necessity of some improvement in these respects.

A full discussion ensued touching on all phases of the subject, resulting in the offering by Mr. Moore of the following resolution, which was adopted:-

RESOLVED; that the entire matter of the printing and binding of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution be referred to a Special Committee, to consist of the Permanent Committee of the Board with the addition of Mr. Albert Johnson, with the request that their findings be reported to the Board of Regents for consideration and action.

PRESENTATION OF THE LANGLEY GOLD MEDAL TO ADMIRAL RICHARD EVELYN BYRD.

The Secretary said that on December 12, 1929, the Board of Regents adopted a resolution awarding the Langley Gold Medal to Admiral Byrd, who selected March 27, 1931, as the time suitable to him to receive the Medal. On that date he was greeted in the Main Hall of the Institution by the Secretary and the following Regents: Chief Justice Hughes, Chancellor;Senators Robinson and Swanson; Representatives Moore and Johnson and Mr. Delano; and also by a large gathering of distinguished guests.

The Chancellor, in presenting the Medal, addressed Admiral Byrd as follows:-

Admiral Byrd: The Langley Gold Medal for Aerodromics was established by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution in the year 1909, at the suggestion of the great inventor, then a Regent, Dr.Alexander Graham Bell. It was founded at that time particularly to express the admiration of the Smithsonian Institution for the epoch-making achievments of the Wright Brothers, who first achieved sustained human flight in heavier-than-air