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 At a meeting held March 12, 1903, the Board of Regents adopted the following resolution:

Resolved. That, in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the fourth Wednesday in January, regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in December and on the 6th day of March, unless that date falls on Sunday, when the following Monday shall be substituted.

In accordance with this resolution, the Board met at 10 o'clock a. m. on December 5, 1905, and on January 24 and March 6, 190G. A special meeting was also held on May 16, 1906.

Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Representative R. R. Hitt, Representative Robert Adams, jr., Representative Hugh A. Dinsmore, Dr. Andrew D. AMiite, the Hon. John B. Henderson, the Hon. George Gray, and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun.

The Acting Secretary announced that the Secretary was unable to be present on account of illness.

The minutes of the meeting held March 6. 1905, were read in abstract and approved.

The Chancellor said: "It becomes my sad duty to bring to the attention of the Board a matter which is undoubtedly in the minds of us all—the departure of our friend and late colleague, Orville H. Pratt. He died in the midst of his labors, cut like a diamond with its own dust. In view of his long and eminent career, and of the many years of faithful, intelligent, and useful service rendered this Institution, I suggest that we put upon our records a minute expressive of our sense of loss."

Judge Gray then offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is called upon to mourn the death, on April 21, 1905, of Orville Hitchcock Pratt, a member of the Board since 1899;

Be it resolved, That the Regents give expression to their sense of loss in the