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Extent:

8.70 cu. ft. (9 document boxes) (7 12x17 boxes) (1 16x20 box)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Date:

1846-1995

Descriptive Entry:

These records are the official minutes of the Board. They are compiled at the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian, who is also secretary to the Board, after approval by the Regents' Executive Committee and by the Regents themselves. The minutes are edited, not a verbatim account of proceedings. For reasons unknown, there are no manuscript minutes for the period from 1857 through 1890; and researchers must rely on printed minutes published in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution instead. Minutes are transferred regularly from the Secretary's Office to the Archives. Minutes less than 15 years old are closed to researchers. Indexes exist for the period from 1907 to 1946 and can be useful.

Historical Note:

The Smithsonian Institution was created by authority of an Act of Congress approved August 10, 1846. The Act entrusted direction of the Smithsonian to a body called the Establishment, composed of the President; the Vice President; the Chief Justice of the United States; the secretaries of State, War, Navy, Interior, and Agriculture; the Attorney General; and the Postmaster General. In fact, however, the Establishment last met in 1877, and control of the Smithsonian has always been exercised by its Board of Regents. The membership of the Regents consists of the Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United States; three members each of the Senate and House of Representatives; two citizens of the District of Columbia; and seven citizens of the several states, no two from the same state. (Prior to 1970 the category of Citizen Regents not residents of Washington consisted of four members). By custom the Chief Justice is Chancellor. The office was at first held by the Vice President. However, when Millard Fillmore succeeded to the presidency on the death of Zachary Taylor in 1851, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney was chosen in his stead. The office has always been filled by the Chief Justice since that time.

The Regents of the Smithsonian have included distinguished Americans from many walks of life. Ex officio members (Vice President) have been: Spiro T. Agnew, Chester A. Arthur, Allen W. Barkley, John C. Breckenridge, George Bush, Schuyler Colfax, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Curtis, George M. Dallas, Charles G. Dawes, Charles W. Fairbanks, Millard Fillmore, Gerald R. Ford, John N. Garner, Hannibal Hamlin, Thomas A. Hendricks, Garret A. Hobart, Hubert H. Humphrey, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, William R. King, Thomas R. Marshall, Walter F. Mondale, Levi P. Morton, Richard M. Nixon, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, James S. Sherman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, William A. Wheeler, Henry Wilson.

Ex officio members (Chief Justice) have been: Roger B. Taney, Salmon P. Chase, Nathan Clifford, Morrison R. Waite, Samuel F. Miller, Melville W. Fuller, Edward D. White, William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan F. Stone, Fred M. Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren E. Burger.

Regents on the part of the Senate have been: Clinton P. Anderson, Newton Booth, Sidney Breese, Lewis Cass, Robert Milledge Charlton, Bennet Champ Clark, Francis M. Cockrell, Shelby Moore Cullom, Garrett Davis, Jefferson Davis, George Franklin Edmunds, George Evans, Edwin J. Garn, Walter F. George, Barry Goldwater, George Gray, Hannibal Hamlin, Nathaniel Peter Hill, George Frisbie Hoar, Henry French Hollis, Henry M. Jackson, William Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Medill McCormick, James Murray Mason, Samuel Bell Maxey, Robert B. Morgan, Frank E. Moss, Claiborne Pell, George Wharton Pepper, David A. Reed, Leverett Saltonstall, Hugh Scott, Alexander H. Smith, Robert A. Taft, Lyman Trumbull, Wallace H. White, Jr., Robert Enoch Withers.

Regents on the part of the House of Representatives have included: Edward P. Boland, Frank T. Bow, William Campbell Breckenridge, Overton Brooks, Benjamin Butterworth, Clarence Cannon, Lucius Cartrell, Hiester Clymer, William Colcock, William P. Cole, Jr., Maurice Connolly, Silvio O. Conte, Edward E. Cox, Edward H. Crump, John Dalzell, Nathaniel Deering, Hugh A. Dinsmore, William English, John Farnsworth, Scott Ferris, Graham Fitch, James Garfield, Charles L. Gifford, T. Alan Goldsborough, Frank L. Greene, Gerry Hazleton, Benjamin Hill, Henry Hilliard, Ebenezer Hoar, William Hough, William M. Howard, Albert Johnson, Leroy Johnson, Joseph Johnston, Michael Kirwan, James T. Lloyd, Robert Luce, Robert McClelland, Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., George H. Mahon, George McCrary, Edward McPherson, James R. Mann, George Perkins Marsh, Norman Y. Mineta, A. J. Monteague, R. Walton Moore, Walter H. Newton, Robert Dale Owen, James Patterson, William Phelps, Luke Poland, John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, B. Carroll Reece, Ernest W. Roberts, Otho Robards Singleton, Frank Thompson, Jr., John M. Vorys, Hiram Warner, Joseph Wheeler.

Citizen Regents have been: David C. Acheson, Louis Agassiz, James B. Angell, Anne L. Armstrong, William Backhouse Astor, J. Paul Austin, Alexander Dallas Bache, George Edmund Badger, George Bancroft, Alexander Graham Bell, James Gabriel Berrett, John McPherson Berrien, Robert W. Bingham, Sayles Jenks Bowen, William G. Bowen, Robert S. Brookings, John Nicholas Brown, William A. M. Burden, Vannevar Bush, Charles F. Choate, Jr., Rufus Choate, Arthur H. Compton, Henry David Cooke, Henry Coppee, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Edward H. Crump, James Dwight Dana, Harvey N. Davis, William Lewis Dayton, Everette Lee Degolyer, Richard Delafield, Frederic A. Delano, Charles Devens, Matthew Gault Emery, Cornelius Conway Felton, Robert V. Fleming, Murray Gell-Mann, Robert F. Goheen, Asa Gray, George Gray, Crawford Hallock Greenwalt, Nancy Hanks, Caryl Parker Haskins, Gideon Hawley, John B. Henderson, John B. Henderson, Jr., A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Gardner Greene Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, Carlisle H. Humelsine, Jerome C. Hunsaker, William Preston Johnston, Irwin B. Laughlin, Walter Lenox, Augustus P. Loring, John Maclean, William Beans Magruder, John Walker Maury, Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, John C. Merriam, R. Walton Moore, Roland S. Morris, Dwight W. Morrow, Richard Olney, Peter Parker, Noah Porter, William Campbell Preston, Owen Josephus Roberts, Richard Rush, William Winston Seaton, Alexander Roby Shepherd, William Tecumseh Sherman, Otho Robards Singleton, Joseph Gilbert Totten, John Thomas Towers, Frederic C. Walcott, Richard Wallach, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., James E. Webb, James Clarke Welling, Andrew Dickson White, Henry White, Theodore Dwight Woolsey.

Topic:

Museums -- Administration  Search this

Museum trustees  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Citation:

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 1, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes

Identifier:

Record Unit 1

See more items in:

Minutes

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian Institution Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-sia-faru0001

Author:

Penland, Dane A  Search this

Subject:

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Discovery Room  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) O. Orkin Insect Zoo  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Office of Museum Programs  Search this

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education  Search this

Physical description:

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Person, candid

Date:

1986

Topic:

Mutchler, Sheila  Search this

Women  Search this

Thomas M. Evans Gallery (NHB)  Search this

Galleries  Search this

Insect zoos  Search this

Standard number:

86-1062-25

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_8971

Author:

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

Thomas M. Evans Gallery  Search this

Festival of India in the United States (1985-1986)  Search this

Subject:

Festival of India in the United States (1985-1986)  Search this

Physical description:

280 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm

Type:

Books

Exhibitions

Place:

India

Date:

1985

[1985]

Topic:

Arts, Indic  Search this

Popular culture  Search this

Civilization  Search this

Call number:

709.54 .A35

NX430.I4A23 1985

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_847658

Author:

Holum, Kenneth G  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service  Search this

Thomas M. Evans Gallery  Search this

Subject:

Herod I King of Judea 73-4 B.C  Search this

Physical description:

244 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 27 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Israel

Caesarea

Caesarea (Israel)

Date:

1988

Topic:

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

History  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Call number:

DS110.C13K56 1988X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_359419

Subject:

Silk Route and the Diamond Path, The (Exhibition) (1983: Washington, D.C.)  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

Place:

Silk Road

Date:

May 6, 1983

Topic:

Thomas M. Evans Gallery (NHB)  Search this

Silk Road--In art  Search this

Scrolls  Search this

Art objects  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_2362

Subject:

Natural History Building  Search this

Thomas M. Evans Gallery (NHB)  Search this

Date:

July, 1981

Topic:

Floors  Search this

Buildings--Repair and reconstruction  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_1905

Subject:

5,000 Years of Korean Art (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

Natural History Building  Search this

Thomas M. Evans Gallery (NHB)  Search this

Place:

Korea

Date:

July 15, 1981

Topic:

Art, Asian  Search this

Art, Oriental  Search this

Exhibit openings  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_1524

Author:

Thomas M. Evans Gallery  Search this

Brazil Ministério da Educação e Cultura  Search this

Brazil (Ministério da Relações Exteriores)  Search this

Fundação National Pró-Memória (Brazil)  Search this

Physical description:

76 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Brazil

Date:

1980

Topic:

Featherwork  Search this

Indian art  Search this

Call number:

F2519.3.F4 B82 1980

F2519.3.F4 B82

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_156856

Subject:

Evans, Thomas E  Search this

5,000 Years of Korean Art (Exhibition) (1981: Washington, D.C.)  Search this

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)  Search this

Thomas M. Evans Gallery (NHB)  Search this

Date:

July 15, 1981

Topic:

Exhibit openings  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Art, Korean  Search this

Openings  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_1738