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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   1561

his feeling that the Trustees of the Textile Museum should be requested to allow the collection to come to the Smithsonian Institution, be stored and in appropriate part be shown in the Institution's museum. He also suggested that the income of the endowment funds of the Textile Museum should be made available for the development by the Smithsonian of an even greater textile collection. The Secretary stated that he felt that this would be much more satisfactory than would a plan for the Smithsonian or any other organization to try to maintain the Museum in its present buildings where so limited a visitor attendance is experienced.

Dr. Hunsaker recalled his lifelong friendship with the founder and gave the background of the collection. He emphasized that if displayed in a hall at the Smithsonian, many more people would be able to see the collection. Dr. Brown cautioned that the collection should be accepted without any limitation that it must be forever segregated. After further discussion, on motion by Dr. Compton, seconded by Dr. Hunsaker, and carried it was

VOTED that the Board of Regents directs the Secretary to explore further with the Trustees of the Textile Museum the possibility that the Museum's collections, real estate and endowment be transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, that the collection be given an important place in the new Museum of History and Technology, and that the Hall for the display of textiles be named the George Hewitt Myers Hall. The Board of Regents further directs the Secretary and the Executive Committee to study this matter in general and report at the next meeting of the Board of Regents concerning the attitude of the Trustees of the Textile Museum on this proposal or any alternate proposals that may be developed.

LANGLEY MEDAL

Dr. Hunsaker, as Chairman of the Committee on the Langley Medal Award appointed at the May 19, 1961 meeting of the Board of Regents, made his report. He spoke of the desirability of having the Medal presented to Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden and urged that the presentation be made at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society. The Society has had a long association with the Smithsonian and its membership includes Dr. Dryden. After a brief discussion, on motion by Senator Anderson, seconded by Dr. Haskins, and carried it was

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