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eluded the assembling of the delegates in Washington and their 

 journeying together to South Carolina, which afforded an oppor- 

 tunity for the leaders to hold this preliminary conference. 



An innovation this year was a series of free Sunday afternoon 

 lectures. Heretofore the auditorium has not been used on this day. 

 The Woman's Welfare Association, which is actively interested in 

 the health conservation of the working women and girls of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, arranged a series of health talks by eminent 

 physicians, both in the federal service and in private practice, on 8 

 Sunday afternoons, two each month, beginning in January. These 

 were as follows : 



January 14, " Progress in health conservation during the past 50 

 years", by Dr. George M. Kober; January 28, "Utility of serums 

 and vaccines in preventive medicine," by Dr. George W. McCoy, 

 U. S. Public Health Service; February 11, "What the Public Health 

 Service has done to further preventive medicine ", by Surgeon Gen- 

 eral Hugh S. Cumming ; February 25, " The Social hygiene pro- 

 gram ", by Dr. Valeria H. Parker 'of New York City; March 11, 

 " Mental hygiene ", by Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of St. 

 Elizabeths Hospital; March 25, "Human relations in industry", by 

 Henry S. Dennison, President of the Dennison Manufacturing Co. ; 

 April 8, "How important are our ancestors", by Dr. Vernon Kel- 

 logg, of the National Research Council ; April 22, " The conservation 

 of health through diet ", by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. 



The American Horticultural Society was organized on October 

 10, 1922, in committee room No. 42-3, at a gathering of a number of 

 local men desirous of a society of horticulture in Washington. 

 Monthly meetings of the society were held thereafter on the second 

 Tuesday of each month, the larger hall being utilized for those of 

 February and March and the committee room serving at other times. 

 The society brought together and placed on display in this room 

 on May 24 and 25 an exhibition of fruits and flowers, which was 

 open to the public from 4 p. m. to 10.30 p. m. the first day and from 

 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. on the second. The auditorium was again used 

 by this society in conjunction with the American Rose Society for 

 a meeting on the evening of June 1, when many lantern slides were 

 shown. 



The Garden Club of Washington as usual held its annual meeting 

 in the auditorium on February 2, with a business session and a 

 motion picture showing potato culture in the West. 

 . The Anthropological Society of Washington continued as hereto- 

 fore to meet regularly in the Museum, their largest meeting being 

 on the evening of December 19 when in conjunction with the Archaeo- 

 logical Society of Washington the auditorium was used for a lecture 



