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tho Secretary, in Charge of the National ISIuseiim. The buikling was 

 sufficiently complete to give the visitors an idea of the extent of the 

 generous gift of the late Charles L. Freer, who donated his art col- 

 lections to the nation and then provided this structure, the latest 

 thing in gallery planning, to house them. Opportunity was also af- 

 forded for the inspection of the various laboratories and work shops 

 of the Museum, as well as of the methods used for preservation of 

 prints and manuscripts at the Library of Congress. The meeting- 

 closed with an evening round table session at Great Falls of the 

 Potomac. 



The Museum auditorium, auditorium lobby, and committee rooms 

 42-3 were occupied from October 28 to November G by the First 

 International Congress of Working "Women, a unique convention of 

 women from all parts of the world. As the International Labor Con- 

 gress summoned by the President of the United States in the autumn 

 of 1919 included on its program items intimately concerning working 

 Avomen, the National Women's Trade L^nion League of America, rep- 

 resenting 600,000 trade unionists, issued a call for this women's con- 

 gress to meet in Washington immediately preceding the Labor Con- 

 gress, in the belief that women must now assume new^ responsibilities 

 and that fellowship and conference together could alone guarantee 

 mutual faith and joint action, which should make for universal indus- 

 trial justice. 



The Delaware Eiver Ship Builders Council had the auditorium on 

 February 9, 10 and 11, 1920, for a conference of workers in various 

 navy yards and shipyards of the United States, in reference to the 

 Government's shipbuilding and shipping program. 



The American Association of Anatomists held its annual meetinir 

 in the Museum April 1, 2 and 3, using committee rooms 42-3 for 

 morning and afternoon sessions except the last afternoon session, 

 Avhich was in the auditorium. Rooms 45, 46, and 47 were also placed 

 at the disposal of the Association for demonstration purposes. And 

 the fifth annual meeting of the American Society of Ichtyhologists 

 and Herpetologists was called to order in the committee room on 

 May 14, 1920. 



The delegates to the annual convention in Washington of the 

 American Pharmaceutical Association, on the occasion of an inspec- 

 tion of the Museum's collections on the morning of Mav 6, were iriven 

 a special exhibition in tlie auditorium of a motion picture film show- 

 ing scenes in the National Forests, lent b}' the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The Southern Sociological Congress had the hall on May 10, 11, 

 32, and 13 for morning and afternoon sessions of its ninth annual 

 convention, the other sessions of which were held elsewhere. This 

 non-partisan and non-sectarian movement is devoted entirely to the 



