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[[underline]]Other Executive Committee business:[[/underline]]

Other items on the agenda were considered and are noted where appropriate.

[[underline]]Information Items:[[/underline]]

[[underline]]Visit to the Ft. Pierce Bureau[[/underline]]

As has previously been proposed, the Secretary inquired as to the advisability of scheduling a visit to the Ft. Pierce Bureau, Ft Pierce, Florida, to inspect the facility and the research being conducted there. 

The trip would be patterned after the very successful visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute last year by a number of the members of the Board of Regents. 

[[underline]]Presentation of James Smithson Society Medallion[[/underline]]

At the Regents' dinner on January 24, 1973, the James Smithson Society Medallion will be awarded to Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post and accepted for her by one of her daughters.

[[underline]]Suggested dates for May 1973 Meetings[[/underline]]

Executive Committee, Wednesday, May 2, 1973

Board of Regents, Wednesday, May 9, 1973.

The meeting adjourned at 6:30 p. m.

Respectfully submitted: 
/signed/
James E. Webb
Chairman, Executive Committee
Board of Regents

A motion for approval of the report was offered and it was: 
VOTED that the Board of Regents approves the Report of the Executive Committee (excluding the TV item) and directs that it be included in the minutes of the present meeting.