24 REPOKT OF KATION-AL MUSEUM, 1923 



Abbot; "Baird at Woods Hole," by Prof. Edwin Linton; "Baird 

 and the fisheries," by Prof. David Starr Jordan; and "Baird the 

 naturalist," by Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam. The exercises were con- 

 cluded by a public announcement of the report of the National Com- 

 mittee as follows: 



1. That Congress be memorialized to establish in the city of Wash- 

 ington a museum of fisheries and oceanography, with laboratories 

 and public aquarium, as a memorial to Spencer Fullerton Baird. 



2. That there be established a fund for the encouragement of re- 

 search and exploration in the directions in which Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird was a leader. 



3. It was the sense of the meeting that the name of " Baird " be 

 given to the laboratory of the Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole, 

 Mass. 



The Garden Club of America, during its autumn meeting in Wash- 

 ington, had the auditorium on the evening of October 24, for illus- 

 trated lectures by Dr. Charles Moore and Mr. James L. Greenleaf 

 on the subject of the Park System of Washington. The audience 

 adjourned to the adjacent Smithsonian Building where a reception 

 was held by Mrs. Charles D. Walcott and a private view had of her 

 water-color sketches of wild flowers, both western and eastern, in- 

 cluding practically all of the wild flowers found in the vicinity of 

 Washington. The collection numbers about 350 paintings and it re- 

 mained afterwards on exhibition to the public in the main hall of the 

 Smithsonian Building. 



The Girl Scouts, holding their convention in Washington, used the 

 auditorium on the evening of April 25 for a convention of Girl Scout 

 leaders with addresses by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Miss Grace Corn- 

 ing Cotton of the Children's Museum, Brooklyn, Miss Mortimer 

 Lloyd, Dr. Paul Bartsch, and others. By a special arrangement all 

 the exhibition halls of the Museum in the Natural Plistory Building 

 were also thrown open to Girl Scouts, their leaders, parents, etc., 

 that evening from 6.30 to IL 



At a meeting under the auspices of the World's Dairy Congress 

 Association on the afternoon of April 17, plans were discussed for 

 calling a world's dairy congress. Representatives of foreign em- 

 bassies and legations were invited to the meeting. The U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture projected motion pictures depicting American 

 methods in dairying and Mr. H. E. Van Norman spoke on dairy 

 work. 



The council of the American Association of Museums held a busi- 

 ness meeting in one of the committee rooms on April 3, 1923, preced- 

 ing the 18th annual meeting of the Association in Charleston, S. C. 

 The transportation arrangements for the Charleston meeting in- 



