KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



57 



Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian huildiiigs since the opening 



of the former in 1881. 



Year. 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 (half year) 



1884-85 



1885-86 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1888-89 



1889-90 



1890-91 



1891-92 



1892-93 



1893-94 



1894-95 



Year. 



1895-96 . . 

 1896-97 . . 

 1897-98 . . 

 189,8-99 . . 

 1899-1900 

 1900-1901 

 1901-2 . . . 

 1902-3. - 

 1903-^ . . . 

 1904-5 . . - 

 190.5-6 . . . 

 1906-7 . . . 

 1907-8 . . . 



CONGRESSES AND MEETINGS. 



The Seventh International Zoological Congress was held in Boston, 

 JMassachusetts, from August 19 to 23, 1907, under the presidency of 

 Dr. Alexander Agassiz. The Smithsonian Institution was officially 

 represented by Dr. Theodore Gill, Dr. William H. Dall, and Dr. 

 Kichard Rathbun, and the National Museum by Dr. Frederick W. 

 True, head curator of biology, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of 

 reptiles and batrachians, and Dr. Harrison G. Dyar, of the division 

 of insects. Several papers were read by members of the Museum 

 staff, as follows: Dr. L. O. Howard, curator of insects, The recent 

 jH-ogress and present condition of economic entomology; Doctor 

 True, On the correlation of North American and European genera 

 of fossil cetaceans; Doctor Gill, Systematic zoology, its place and 

 functions, and The incongruity of inland and marine faunas; 

 Doctor Dyar, The distribution of mosquitoes in North America; 

 Dr. Marcus ^Y. Lyon, jr., assistant curator of mammals, The dis- 

 tribution of bats in the zoogeographical regions; Dr. B. W. Ever- 

 mann, curator of fishes. The origin of the golden trout of the 

 Southern High Sierra; Doctor Dall, curator of mollusks. Deep 

 sea distribution of the molluscan fauna of the northwest coast; Dr. 

 Paul Bartsch, assistant curator of mollusks, A study in distribution 

 based on the family Pyramidellidaj of the west coast of America; 

 Dr. T. W. Vaughan, custodian of madreporarian corals, Summary 

 of results obtained from a study of the recent Madreporaria of the 

 Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Organizing secretaries were selected 

 from members of the staff, as follows: Dr. Leonhard Stejneger for 



