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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  1363

RESOLVED: That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution has received with deep sorrow the announcement of the death on December 24, 1952, of Representative Eugene E. Cox of Georgia. 

RESOLVED: That in his death our country has lost one of its outstanding citizens, a man distinguished for his accomplishments in the law and in public administration and legislation. That as one always interested in the affairs of the Institution, his presence will be sadly missed by his associates on this Board.

RESOLVED: That these resolutions be entered in the minutes of the Board and that a copy be sent to Mrs. Cox with an expression of the personal sense of loss felt by the Regents at the death of Mr. Cox.

On motion, this resolution was adopted. 

At Senator Anderson's suggestion, it was agreed that a copy of the above resolutions, properly engrossed and signed by the Regents, be prepared and sent to Mrs. Davis and to Mrs. Cox by the Chancellor.

REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Mr. Robert V. Fleming, Chairman of the Executive Committee, then presented the following report:

The customary detailed report of the Executive Committee for the last fiscal year which ended June 30, 1952, with the statement for the public information as to investments and income is included in the printed report of the Secretary of the Institution, which is on the table.

The following matters, supplemental to this, cover the first half of the present fiscal year.