_Chairman._
JENNIE GILMORE KNOTT.
LAVINIA H. EGAN.
FANNIE LOWRY PORTER.
HELEN BOICE-HUNSICKER.

Madam PRESIDENT,
_Board of Lady Managers._

The tenth meeting of the board was called on November 9, 1904. Many
matters in connection with the closing of the work of the board in St.
Louis were disposed of, and the following resolution passed concerning
the preparation of its final report:

I move that the president of this board be requested to make a
final report of the work of this board.

On December 2 the last session of the board was held in the building
which it had occupied during all the months of the exposition, and it
was with a feeling of genuine regret that the members separated, never
to meet again in the house which had been the scene of many interesting
gatherings.

On the day following the official closing of the exposition the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company sent their representative to make
an inventory of the contents of the building, preparatory to the
dismantling of the house which was thereafter to be known as the Physics
Building and be occupied by students of the Washington University. On
December 13 formal and final surrender was made by the president on
behalf of the board of lady managers to the Exposition Company.

The following is the final report of the house committee for the
exposition period:

On the 30th day of April, 1904, at the opening of the greatest
exposition the world has ever known, and commemorating one of
the most important events in the history of our country, the
board of lady managers, created by act of Congress and appointed
by the National Commission, designed by the wisdom and
forethought of one of our most dearly beloved Chief Executives,
to represent the women of America in setting forth to the world
woman's part, not only in the making of the exposition but in
the real expansion and development of our great nation, found
itself, by a combination of circumstances fortuitous or
otherwise, resolved into a committee on entertainment, with a
commodious and elegantly appointed home to call its own and the
appropriation of $100,000 to spend on furnishing, entertaining,
and necessary expenses of the board. It is therefore the
pleasure of this your house committee to report for the entire
exposition period beginning April 30, 1904, and ending December
1, 1905,