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Rh, chairman of the executive committee, and others, the following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That the matter of the Karr defalcations he referred to the executive committee with a request that they will consider it fully and make report at the next meeting of the Board.

The Acting Secretary reported progress in the construction of the new building for the National Museum. The first stone was laid on August 21, 1905, and the walls and piers of the basement were approaching completion. The steel girders for the main floor were at hand, and it was expected that the walls of another story would be finished before the end of the fiscal year.

Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator A. O. Bacon, Representative Robert Adams, jr., Representative W. M. Howard, Dr. J. B. Angell, the Hon. Richard Olney, the Hon. George Gray, Dr. A. Graham Bell, and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun.

The Chancellor announced the appointment of Regents, as follows:

By the Vice President, on the part of the Senate, December 7, 1905: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in place of Senator Orville H. Platt, deceased; and Senator A. O. Bacon to succeed Senator Francis M. Cockrell, whose term of service in the Senate had expired.

By the Speaker, on the part of the House of Representatives, December 13, 1905: Representatives R. R. Hitt and Robert Adams, jr., to succeed themselves, and Representative W. M. Howard to succeed Mr. Hugh A. Dinsmore, whose term as Representative had expired.

The minutes of the meeting held December 5, 1905, were read in abstract and approved.

The Chancellor read a letter from the Secretary explaining that illness would prevent his attendance at the meeting, and asking the indulgence of the Board for his absence from his post. The