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for business meetings on July 19, November 3, November 10, and 

 March 5. 



Various other groups of civil employees met in the Museum for 

 organizing, preparing data, and otherwise helping toward the re- 

 classification of the government forces in Washington, the audito- 

 rium being so used by federal employees interested in the bookkeep- 

 ing, accounting and auditing service on November 21 ; by the clerical 

 force of the Department of Agriculture on November 25 and Decem- 

 ber 3 ; and by the employees of the Bureau of Plant Industry of that 

 Department on November 15. Committee room 42-3 was likewise 

 occupied by the federal photographers on November 11 ; by the ma- 

 rine and stationary operating engineers on November 28, December 4, 

 xtiarch 24 and April 14; by the sub-committee on personnel of the 

 Reclassification Committee on November 22 and December 3 ; and 

 by members of the Museum's scientific staff on November 24 and 

 December 13. 



Eoom 42-3 was also used for meetings of the Association of 

 Appointment Clerks on June 9; the Smithsonian Auxiliary of the 

 District of Columbia Chapter of the American Red Cross on June 11, 

 and for the annual meeting of the Smithsonian Relief Association 

 on October 27. 



Armistice Day, November 11, 1919, was duly celebrated by a gath- 

 ering of all the officers and employees of the Smithsonian and its 

 bureaus in the Museum auditorium, where at 11 : 11 a. m. all joined 

 in singing " The Star Spangled Banner," under the direction of Mr. 

 J. G. Traylor, and saluting the flag, led by Mr. H. W. Dorsey. 



In compliance with a request from Commissioner Brownlow, 

 Secretary Walcott authorized the use of the south steps of the Nat- 

 ural History Building for staging a part of the festival by the 

 Fourth of July Peace Celebration Committee on the afternoon of 

 July 4, 1919, The program included a series of tableaux depicting 

 the negro race from its origin down to the present time. About 

 fifty persons represented the characters in this part of the festival, 

 and the domestic, mechanical, and musical instruments needed to 

 complete the i)ictures in the different groups were loaned by the 

 Museum. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS. 



Under the auspices of the Arts Club of Washington and in the 

 interest of the National Peace Carillon movement, a special exhibition 

 of illustrations of the famous bell towers of the world was held in 

 rooms 46 and 47 of the Natural History Building from October 2 to 

 31 inclusive. The Arts Club has undertaken to enlist the cooperation 

 of all lovers of freedom in furthering a plan to erect at the nation's 



