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receptions by the President, at the White House, and the Secretary 

 of Commerce and Labor, at his residence; luncheons by the Ameri- 

 can Fisheries Society, the Bkie Ridge Rod and Gun Club, and the 

 Alaska Packers' Association, and a dinner at the Raleigh Hotel. 

 After the close of the meeting excursions were made to a number 

 of interesting fishing centers. 



Among the prizes offered in competition for essays on fishery 

 subjects was one of the value of $200 tendered by the Smithsonian 

 Institution for a dissertation on " International regulations of the 

 fisheries on the high seas, their history, objects, and results." The 

 National Museum also joined with the Bureau of Fisheries in pre- 

 paring an exhibit appropriate to such a congress. The former 

 assembled a large series of models of fishing boats and specimens 

 of the useful fishes, reptiles, and batrachians; the latter brought 

 together examples of the aj^paratus used in the fisheries and fish 

 culture and specimens of the different kinds of aquatic invertebrates 

 of commercial value. 



The next meeting of the congress will be held in Rome. Italy, in 

 1911, the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of that country, the 

 invitation having been extended by the Italian Fisheries Society 

 and the city of Rome. The Fisheries Congress has a permanent 

 organization, with headquarters in Paris, under the presidency of 

 Prof. Edmond Perrier, director of the National Museum of Natural 

 History of France. The first meeting was held in Paris in 1900, 

 the second in St. Petersburg in 1902, and the third in Vienna in 1905. 



Pan-American Scientific Congress. — Among the delegates ap- 

 pointed to represent the United States at this congress, held at 

 Santiago, Chile, from December 25, 1908, to January 5, 1909, was 

 Mr. William H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnol- 

 ogy and curator of prehistoric archeology in the National Museum. 

 The report of Mr. Holmes on the work of the congress belongs else- 

 where, but it may be said here that throughout his trip he kept the 

 interests of the Museum constantly in mind and made many observa- 

 tions which will be of value in the future installation of collections. 

 Arrangements were also entered into for the exchange of specimens. 



Fifteenth International Congress of Orientalists. — Dr. Paul Haupt, 

 jirofessor of Semitic philology in Johns Hopkins University and 

 associate of the Museum in historic archeolog}'^, represented the 

 Smithsonian Institution and National Museum at the Fifteenth 

 International Congress of Orientalists, held in Copenhagen, Den- 

 mark, from August 14 to 20, 1908. Doctor Haupt was also a dele- 

 gate on behalf of the United States Government at the same congress, 

 serving in conjunction with Dr. C. R. Lanman, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Prof. Morris Jastrow, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Prof. A. V. W. Jackson, of Columbia University. 



