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tural Board, to consider the importation of bulbs into this country ; 

 on November 21, for an address on " Farm life" by Mr. David Fri- 

 day, President of the Michigan Agricultural College, before the 

 employees of the Department; on December 19 for a conference re- 

 garding importation of fruits and vegetables, under the auspices of 

 the Federal Horticultural Board; on February 5 for the projection 

 of some of the Department's new pictures, showing the work of the 

 Bureau of Public Roads ; cattle ticks, etc. ; March 12 for a conference 

 of beekeepers and persons interested in bee culture, called by the 

 Bureau of Entomology; and May 9 for a general meeting of the 

 employees of the Forest Service with an address by Mr. J. C. Dort 

 on conditions in Alaska. 



The Smithsonian Institution provided a popular illustrated lec- 

 ture under its Hamilton Fund on the afternoon of April 18, when 

 an address on "Discoveries in Eastern Turkestan and Southern 

 Tibet" was delivered by the noted Swedish explorer, Dr. Sven 

 Hedin. 



The 450th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus on February 

 19 was the occasion of another meeting under the auspices of the 

 Institution. Dr. C. G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the Institu- 

 tion, spoke on the life and achievements of Copernicus, the founder 

 of modern astronomy. The Polish Legation was represented at the 

 meeting. 



In connection with the observance of Safety Week (November 26 

 to December 2) Doctor Abbot spoke before the emploj^ees of the 

 Institution and its bureaus in the auditorium on the afternoon of 

 November 27, on various features of safety work and methods of 

 avoiding accidents. Talks on safety by prominent speakers were 

 received by radio and amplified in the east hall, Natural History 

 Building, several times a day during this week by means of specially 

 installed instruments, and the scheme was also carried out in a 

 lesser degree in the Arts and Industrial Building. 



On March 24 the employees of the Institution and its bureaus had 

 an opportunity of hearing an exceptionally interesting address by 

 Arthur Coggesshall, of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, on 

 the Dinosaur National Monument area in Utah, illustrated by mo- 

 tion pictures. The locality is one that has yielded a large amount 

 of valuable material and one which the National Museum has re- 

 cently entered with a view to procuring one of the larger forms for 

 its exhibition halls. 



The film "Adam's Rib" was privately shown in the Museum 

 auditorium on March 8 for the benefit of the scientific staff and 

 other employees of the Smithsonian bureaus, in return for informa- 

 tion furnished Cecil De Mille, director general of the Paramount 



