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the same day, July 16, 1914, at which the combined attendance 

 amounted to 1,350 persons. Besides coral, algal and other reef illus- 

 trations, the film included several special and more spectacular 

 features. 



Two receptions were given by the Regents and Secretary of the 

 Institution. The first, on April 17, 1915, was in honor of the Na- 

 tional Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and 

 followed a lecture in the auditorium, under the auspices of the 

 Society, on "The City of Washington," by Mr. Clayton E. Emig. 

 Music was furnished by the Marine Band. The second was to the 

 delegates to the Sixth Annual Convention of the American Federa- 

 tion of Arts, then in session at the New Willard Hotel, and was 

 held on May 13. In view of the extensive loan exhibition of indus- 

 trial art assembled in the foyer under the auspices of the Federation, 

 the guests were received there, but a part of the main exhibition 

 floor was also lighted and visited. 



A number of meetings were held by branches of the Department of 

 Agriculture and by others interested in agricultural matters. Under 

 the Rural Economics Club of the Department a lecture on the 

 " Effect of war on agriculture " was delivered on August 17, 1914. 

 The Office of Farm Management Investigations of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry was furnished with acconunodations for a series of 

 meetings on November 5, 6 and 7. The American Farm Manage- 

 ment Association had the use of the auditorimn and other rooms on 

 November 9 and 10. The office of Markets and Rural Organization 

 held hearings on November 12, 13 and 14, relative to the rules gov- 

 erning the enforcement of the United States Cotton Futures Act. 

 A series of 12 Saturday lectures under the auspices of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry were given between December 19 and March 20. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS. 



The principal special exhibition of the year was one held under the 

 auspices of The American Federation of Arts, as described below. 

 Under the National Gallery of Art will be found an account of 

 another very important loan exhibition made by The National Asso- 

 ciation of Portrait Painters. A subject in which all are interested, 

 the erection of a George Washington Memorial Building, was 

 brought to the attention of the public by the display from May to 

 December, 1914, of all the designs submitted in competition for this 

 proposed structure, those of the successful architects remaining until 

 January, 1915, and for a short period a large colored drawing de- 

 picting the exterior appearance of the building under the accepted 

 plans was also shown. The collection of the National Red Cross 

 Society, described in previous reports, was retained on exhibition 



