Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1914-1917)

DECEMBER MEETING, 1914

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AFTERNOON SESSION
The Board reassembled at 2:30 P. M. Present, the
President, Regent Beal, Regent Hubbard, Regent Clements
Regent Bulkley, Regent Hanchett, Regent Gore, and Regenl
Leland. Absent, Superintendent Keeler, who later took
his seat, and Regent Sawyer.
Regent Bulkley presented the following letter:PRESIDENT HARRY B. HUTCHINS,
Office of the President.
DEAR SIR:I wish to bring the following matter to your attention.
In 1913 the Association of American Geographers raised a Committee on Research and instructed it to determine
what explorations the association should undertake to support. This committee canvassed the membership for recommendations and tentative outlines of proposed explorations, and as a member I submitted three plans for zoogeographical explorations, which I hoped would influence the
committee in its choice.
I have now been informed by the chairman that my suggestions have not only been approved by the committee but
that each member has selected them from the many proposed as his first choice. I am now urged by the committee to prepare detailed outlines and estimates of any one
of my three plans so that the committee may adopt it.
I am;about to propose a five-year biological survey of
an area in South America under my direction, the work to.
be done during the summer months. I anticipate that there
can be no objection to this on the part of the University
authorities but I wish to bring it to your attention because
I desire to bring the Museum into the work. The committee will agree to the condition that the University receive
all of the specimens obtained in as much as I will undertake
the explorations entirely without salary.
I would like to have your approval or disapproval of
this plan. It will in my opinion, be an excellent thing, not
only because a large amount of valuable material will be
secured, but also because the temporary connection between
the Museum and the Association will show to the country
at large that the work which is being done here has the approval of such an eminent organization as the Association
of American Geographers.
Permit me to add that I have not as yet submitted the