154 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM^ 1914. 



The National Academy of Sciences, in connection with its annual 

 meeting from April 21 to 23, held only its i)ublic sessions at the 

 Museum, which were devoted to the reading of papers during the 

 morning and afternoon of the 22d, and the inauguration of the 

 William Ellery Hale Lectures by Sir Ernest Rutherford, of the Uni- 

 versity of Manchester, England, who spoke on the afternoons of the 

 21st and 23d on " The constitution of matter and the evolution of the 

 elements." 



On the evening of October 20, 1913, His Serene Highness the 

 Prince of Monaco delivered an address under the auspices of the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences and the Anthropological Society 

 of Washington, his subject being " Researches in oceanography and 

 anthropology," but he spoke mainly upon the former topic, in which 

 his own remarkable explorations and studies are so well and widely 

 known. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides and motion 

 pictures, all relating to the work in connection with his own vessels, 

 and the latter w^ere of a remarkable character, including vivid scenes 

 at sea, the depiction of which in this manner had never before been 

 attempted. 



On December 10 Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Museum staff, spoke 

 before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on prehis- 

 toric pathology on the American continent, with demonstrations of 

 extensive recently acquired medical and surgical material from the 

 collections of the Museum. An illustrated lecture on the fauna of 

 the Pleistocene asphalt at Rancho La Brea, Cal., was delivered on 

 January 8 by Prof. John C. Merriam, of the University of California, 

 under the auspices of the Washington Academy of Sciences ; and on 

 February 4 Dr. Josef Schumpeter, the Austrian exchange professor 

 for Columbia University, lectured under the auspices of the George 

 Washington University on " The Balkan situation." One of the 

 semimonthly meetings of the Washington Society of Engineers, held 

 in the auditorium on February 5, was devoted to addresses on the 

 Navajo, Papago, Pueblo, and Menominee Indians by Dr. Samuel A. 

 Eliot, Mr. Edward E. Ayer, and Mr. William H. Ketcham, members 

 of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, and by Dr. 

 Joseph K. Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker expedition, 

 motion pictures taken by this expedition being also shown. A lec- 

 ture entitled " The musical uplift " was given by Mr. John C. Freund, 

 editor of Musical America, on February 6, under the District of 

 Columbia Chapter of the Guild of American Organists, the Rubin- 

 stein Club, and the Piano Teachers' Association; and on March 24 

 Mr. Henry C. Gauss spoke on "The Braddock trail," before the 

 Columbia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 

 "Richard Wagner's Parsifal Dichtung" was the subject of an ad- 

 dress before the Germanistic Society of Washington on April 2, by 



