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the District of Columbia, and on March 20 for a lecture by Dr. Wil- 

 liam L. Finley, State Ornitholooist of Orci>;on, on wild game, illus- 

 trated by motion pictures. On Januar}' 28 the Wild FloAver Preser- 

 vation Societ}?^ met in the committee room. 



" The Cost of Living from the Consumer's Standpoint " was the 

 subject of an evening meeting of the Consumers' League of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia in the hall on September 6, with addresses by Hon. 

 William B. Colver, of the Federal Trade Commission, and Mrs. 

 Florence Kelley, General Secretary of the League. 



Under the committee for " Be Kind to Animals Week" Mr. Ernest 

 Harold Baines gave an illustrated lecture in the auditorium on April 

 14 on the part plaj^ed by the animals in the war, and room 422 was 

 utilized on the morning of May 11 for organizing a " Good to Ani- 

 mals Society." 



The U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post No. 2 of the American Leaion 

 celebrated its first anniversary with addresses by the Secretary of 

 the 'Navy, Hon. Josephus Daniels, Hon. James A. Frear, and Col. 

 E, Lester Jones, in the auditorium on the evening of May 22, 1920. 



Prizes for the Evening Star Army Enlistment Essa3^s were 

 aw^arded in the auditorium on the evening of Maj^ 8, instead of in 

 the Smithsonian Park as first planned, because of inclement 

 weather. 



The auditorium was also used by the Washington Societj^ of Engi- 

 neers on the evening of November 19, 1919, for a general discussion 

 of the preliminary report of Engineering Council's Committee on 

 Classification and Compensation of Government Engineers, to which 

 all engineers in Washington Avere invited, and by the AVashington 

 section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on the 

 evening of January 29, 1920. 



The work of the Congressional Joint Commission on Reclassifica- 

 tion of Salaries created great activity among the civil emploj^ees of 

 the Government in the District of Columbia, and the Museum audi- 

 torium accordingly afforded a meeting place for the Scientific- 

 Technical Section of the Federal Employees Union No. 2 on Septem- 

 ber 23, to complete the organization of the section by the adoption 

 of a constitution and by-law^s and the election of officers ; on Novem- 

 ber 10 for a sj-mposium in which Dr. E. A. Golden weiser and Mr. 

 Basil Manley discussed the principles involved in the fixing of sal- 

 aries; on November 25 for an address by Prof. Irving Fisher, of 

 Yale University, on the purchasing power of salaries ; and on March 

 11 for addresses by Drs. C. E. McClung and H. M. Howe of the 

 National Research Council on the work being done by that organiza- 

 tion. The Smithsonian Branch of the Federal Employees Union 

 No. 2 occupied room 42-3 on October 14 for its annual meeting, and 

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