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and motion pictures; on the afternoon of April 15 for the Oflfice of 

 Home Economics for a lecture, with motion pictures, by Col. Jolm 

 A. Murlin on efficiency and sanitation in the feeding of United States 

 troops, and on the afternoon of May 28 for a meeting of the War 

 Relief Association of that Department. 



The Treasury Department occupied the auditorium on February 

 1 for an exhibition, under the Public Health Service, of the moving 

 picture film " Fit to Win," before the faculties and students of the 

 departments of medicine and dentistry of Georgetown University, 

 the speakers being Asst. Surg. Gen. C. C. Pierce, Dr. George M. 

 Kober, and Dr. Bruce L. Taylor; and the Bureau of War Risk In- 

 surance on December 31 for a farewell meeting to the retiring assist- 

 ant director, Capt. John J. Crowley, United States Army ; on Jan- 

 uary 17 for the annual meeting of the Allotments and Allowance 

 Division; on January 31 for instructing its timekeepers; on Febru- 

 ary 3 for organizing the employees of the Allotments and Allow- 

 ance Division to constitute a branch of the Federal Employees 

 Union ; on February 4 and 5 for lectures, under the auspices of the 

 Commission on Training Camp Activities, before the female em- 

 ployees of the Bureau; on February 9 to show moving pictures be- 

 fore the female employees; on February 14 and 15 for all-day meet- 

 ings of insurance officers from the demobilization camps ; on Febru- 

 ary 17 for an informal meeting at which Mr, Gates, chief of the 

 Allotments and Allowajice Division, addressed the employees; on 

 March 10 and the afternoon of March 19 for lectures to different 

 sections of its employees; and on March 24 for moving pictures of 

 the Bureau's activities overseas, before the director and other mem- 

 bers of the staff of the Bureau. 



The Ordnance Department of the War Department was assisted in 

 its work by illustrated lectures in the auditorium on the afternoons of 

 May 3 and 17, when Lieut. Col. G. M. Barnes spoke, respectively, on 

 the battle scenes in the World War and the method of camouflaging 

 used by the Artillery Division of the United States Army during 

 the war. 



The National Academy of Sciences met this year on April 28 to 

 30, the afternoon of the last day being devoted to a joint session with 

 the National Research Council. The main hall, range, and chapel 

 of the Smithsonian Building were prepared for these meetings, but, 

 after the first day's sessions, adjournment was had to the Museum 

 auditorium and committee rooms, as affording better accommoda- 

 tions. Dr. James Henry Breasted, of the University of Chicago, 

 delivered in the auditorium the two lectures under the William Ellery 

 Hale foundation on " The origin of civilization, from the old stone 

 age to the dawn of civilization," the first on the evening of April 

 28, and the second on the next afternoon. The first was followed 



