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staff, on the " First battle of the Marne," under the auspices of the 

 Reserve Officers' Association of the District of Columbia. 



The Pan American Students' Association of the School of Foreign 

 Service of Georgetown University had the auditorium on April 5 

 for a special Mexican night, the Mexican Embassy cooperating. A 

 number of prominent speakers on Mexican affairs and five Mexican 

 artists from the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York gave a 

 varied program. Through the courtesy of the Embassy, an exhibit 

 of Mexican popular arts was displayed in the auditorium lobby dur- 

 ing the evening. 



Students from Howard University and the American University 

 likewise made use of the Museum for meetings. Dr. Paul Bartsch 

 addressing the medical class of the former in the committee room on 

 February 14, and Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, lecturer on anthropology at 

 the latter, bringing his class to the Museum on March 23. 



The Southern Society of Washington used the auditorium on the 

 evening of October 28, for a short business session followed by an 

 address by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis on " The state of the country." 



The Association of Appointment Clerks held a meeting in com- 

 mittee room 42-3 on the afternoon of October 4 ; the Federal Photo- 

 graphic Society met here on October 27 and May 28, and the Wash- 

 ington, D. C, chapter of Sigma Xi honor fraternity on March 7. 



International Congress of Americanists. — The 20th International 

 Congress of Americanists convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 

 August 21 to September 3, 1922. Dr. Walter Hough and Dr. Ales 

 Hrdlicka of the Museum staff served as delegates both for the United 

 States and the Smithsonian Institution. 



International Geological Congress. — The 13th International Geo- 

 logical Congress was held in Brussels, Belgium, from August 10 

 to 19, 1922. The Smithsonian Institution was represented by Dr. 

 E. O. Ulrich. 



The American Association of Museums. — The 18th annual meeting 

 of the American Association of Museums was held at Charleston, 

 S. C, April 4 to 7, 1923, on the occasion of the one hundred and 

 fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the first museum in America, 

 the Charleston Museum founded in 1773. Mr. W. deC. Ravenel and 

 Mr. F. L. Lewton represented the National Museum. The most im- 

 portant business transacted had to do with the establisliment of 

 Association headquarters in Washington. In addition to the anni- 

 versary celebration and an elaborate three-day program of business 

 and the reading of technical papers, there was offered to the delegates 

 by the citizens of Charleston a most extensive series of entertain- 

 ments of all kinds. The next meeting of the Association will be held 

 in Washington in April, 1924. 



