Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1924 The affairs of the Institution are administered by a Board of Regents whose membership consists of the Vice President, the Chief Justice, three Members of the Senate, and three Members Of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons other than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the City of Washington and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State. One of the Regents is elected chancellor by the board; in the past the selection has fallen upon the Vice President or the Chief Justice; and a suit able person is chosen by them as secretary of the Institution, who is also secretary of the Board of Regents and the executive officer directly in charge of the Institution's activities. In regard to the personnel of the board, the following changes occurred during the year: Through his succession to the Presidency on August 2, 1923, owing to the death of President Harding, the Hon. Calvin Coolidge automatically ceased to be a Regent, thus terminating his office as chancellor of the Institution, and to fill the vacancy thus created, the Hon. William H. Taft was elected chancellor of the board on December 13, 1923. Walter H. Newton, Member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota, was ap pointed a Regent by the Speaker of the House to fill the vacancy caused by the election to the Senate of Frank L. Greene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.