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furniture, clothing, printing, cotton goods, and canned fruits and 

 vegetables — was displayed in the auditorium lobby and the adjoin- 

 ing foyer during the meetings. 



The National Conference of Social Work, the largest organization 

 in the United States of persons engaged in this kind of work, had the 

 auditorium from May 17 to 23 (exclusive of Sunday May 20) for 

 many sessions of its 50th anniversary meeting. This was preceded 

 by the second national convention of the National Association of 

 Travelers Aid Societies held in the auditorium from May 14 to 16. 



The 23d annual meeting of the National Consumers' League, No- 

 vember 9 and 10, was devoted to the general subject " What Women 

 want now." This was a conference of national organizations of 

 women, including the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Young 

 Women's Christian Association, League of Women Voters, American 

 Association of University Women, Teachers of Household Economics, 

 Parent Teachers Associations, Women's Trade Union League, the 

 National Council of Jewish Women and other kindred bodies. The 

 immediate practical object was to unify and focus the educational 

 and legslative work of these bodies. 



A conference on athletics and physical recreation by women and 

 girls, sponsored by Mrs. Herbert Hoover and the National Amateur 

 Athletic Federation of America, convened in the auditorium and one 

 of the committee rooms on April 6 and 7. 



The National Medical Association during its convention in Wash- 

 ington, held two sessions in the auditorium on the evenings of August 

 22 and 23. The speakers included Surgeon General Hugh S. Cum- 

 mine: and other noted medical men. 



The centenary of the birth of Prof. Spencer Fullerton Baird, sec- 

 end secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was duly commemo- 

 rated on February 3, 1923, under the auspices of the National Baird 

 Memorial Committee composed of delegates appointed by 54 scien- 

 tific societies and institutions in various parts of the country, and 

 officered as follows: Honorary President, Dr. William H. Dall; 

 President, Dr. Charles D. Walcott; Vice Presidents, Mr. George R. 

 Agassiz, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (deceased), Prof. Frank W. 

 Clarke, Prof. Stephen A, Forbes, Prof. David Starr Jordan, Prof. 

 Edwin Linton, Prof. Edward S. Morse, Prof. Henry Fairfield Os- 

 born. Prof. Addison E. Verrill, and Dr. Robert S. Woodward ; Secre- 

 tary, Dr. Paul Bartsch. The celebration consisted of a meeting in 

 the auditorium, followed by a conversazione on the main floor of the 

 Museum with music by the United States Marine Band. The many 

 sides of this great naturalist were depicted by the following addresses : 

 "Baird the man," by Dr. William Healey Dall; "Baird and the 

 Smithsonian Institution and its branches," by Dr. Charles Greeley 



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