REPOET OF NATIOlSrAL, MUSEUM, 1921. 27 



etc., on account of the citrus black fly. On May 16 and 17 the 

 board had the auditorium for an important conference of persons in- 

 terested in the cotton industry with reference to damage threatened 

 by the pink boll worm. 



The Forest Service had the auditorium on four forenoons — on 

 January 25 and February 16, for general meetings of the employees 

 of the service, for showing lantern slides : on March 25, for a meet- 

 ing of employees in connection with official work; and on June 10, 

 for a meeting of employees to dedicate a memorial tablet in memory 

 of the 19 employees of the Forest Service who lost their lives in the 

 World War, the presentation being made by Mr. Herbert A. Smith, 

 and the address of acceptance by Lieut. Col. William B. Greeley, 

 Forester and Chief of the Forest Service. Music was furnished by 

 the band of the Third United States Cavalry from Fort Myer. This 

 Italian renaissance tablet of Sienna marble, following closely the 

 style of certain old tablets in Italian cathedrals, is believed to be 

 the only work of its kind in America. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry showed motion-picture films to the 

 scientific staff of the bureau in the auditorium on the afternoon of 

 November 18, and held its phytopathological seminar in room 42-43 

 on the afternoon of March 10. 



States Kelations Service used the auditorium on three occasions, 

 as follows: On the morning of November 17 and on the afternoon 

 of April 13, for showing motion and stereopticon pictures relating to 

 its activities, to the employees of the service, and on the forenoon of 

 May 28, for an illustrated lecture by Dr. B. SjoUema, of the Veteri- 

 nary University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, on some of the unique 

 features of the agriculture of his country. The Potomac Garden 

 Club, cooperating with the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, held its annual meeting there on the evening of January 17. 



The members of the staff of the Bureau of Markets were called to- 

 gether in the auditorium on the afternoon of September 24, and an 

 all-day conference of United States game wardens, under the au- 

 . spices of the Biological Survey, occupied room 42-43 on January 6. 



Twice was the auditorium at the disposal of the Army Medical 

 School — on the afternoon of November 17, 1920, for a lecture by 

 Dr. Hideyo Noguchi. of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re- 

 search, delivered before the student officers of the school and members 

 of the Medical Corps of the Army on duty in Washington, and on the 

 afternoon of May 26, for the closing exercises of the 1920-21 session 

 of the school. 



On April 21 Mr. D. F. Garland, on behalf of The National Cash 

 Register Co., demonstrated welfare work to a group of employees 

 of the Post Office Department. Other governmental agencies making 



