Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Former Justice George Gray L.'63, of Wilmington, Del., has been elected chairman of the Smithsonian Institution executive committee by the board of regents. The appointment of Senator Henry French Hollis '92, of Concord, N. H. and Charles Francis Choate, Jr., '83 of Boston, as members of the board has also been announced. The Institution's endowment now totals $1,002,500, the income of which is to be devoted to research and other work...
...Institut also acts in a semiofficial capacity in co-operation with the American Copyright Office and the Smithsonian Institution in facilitating foreign copyright and the exchange of documents...
...most important functions of the institute will be the exchange of documents and scholarly literature through the agency of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and probably also the protection of the American copyright for German books. A large library for the study of historic, economic and social problems of America will be connected with the bureau...