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garten work by the local schools, from April 29 to May 2 ; and by the 

 American Surgical Association which, as one of the constituent soci- 

 eties of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons holding 

 its ninth triennial session in Washington, had its meetings in the 

 Museum building from May 6 to 8. The Department of Agriculture 

 had the use of the auditorium for two conferences, one for the field 

 men of the Office of Farm Management, from January 6 to 21; the 

 other for the employees of the Bureau of Animal Industry in charge 

 of the federal meat inspection service throughout the country, from 

 June 2 to 4. A reception in honor of the Daughters of the American 

 Revolution was held, by invitation of the Regents and Secretary, on 

 the evening of April 12; and another, in honor of Mr. James Wilson, 

 who had just retired as Secretary of Agriculture, was given by the 

 employees of the Department of Agriculture on the evening of 

 March 6. 



Reference may also be made here to the ceremonies attending the 

 unveihng of the tablet in honor of Samuel Pierpont Langley, late 

 Secretary of the Institution, installed in the vestibule of the Smith- 

 sonian building, which took place on May 6 or "Langley Day." 

 The exercises were held in the adjoining main hall, in which had been 

 assembled the three successful experimental models of the Langley 

 aerodrome and the engine built for the large machine. 



The Museum, in conjunction with the Institution, participated in 

 two important congresses abroad. One was the Fourteenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology, held 

 at Geneva, Switzerland, from September 9 to 15, 1912, at which Dr. 

 Ales Hrdhcka, a curator of the Museum, was a delegate. The other 

 was the Ninth International Zoological Congress, which met at 

 Monaco from March 25 to 30, 1913, and at which the Museum rep- 

 resentatives were Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator of biology. 

 Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, of the Bureau of the PubHc Health, and 

 Dr. Herbert H. Field, director of the Concilium Bibliographicum, 

 at Zurich, Switzerland. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS. 



The models and pictures illustrating the competitive designs for 

 the Lincohi Memorial in Washington, by Mr. Henry Bacon and Mr. 

 John Russell Pope, referred to in the last report, remained on exhi- 

 bition throughout the year; and dm^ing most of the year the Museum 

 was allowed to display two of the interesting models belonging to the 

 Isthmian Canal Commission, one being a rehef map of the Gatun 

 dam and locks, the other a working model of the Pedro Miguel lock. 



