56 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1909. 



Centenary celehration of the London Geological Society. — Dr. 

 Arnold Hague, of the United States Geological Survey, acted as the 

 representative of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum 

 at the centenary celebration of the London Geological Society, Sep- 

 tember 26 to 28, 1908. 



National Academy of Sciences. — The annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences was held in Washington from April 21 

 to 23, 1909. Accommodations in the Smithsonian building were 

 furnished for the business sessions of the academy, while one of the 

 halls in the Museum building was fitted up as a lecture room for the 

 public meetings, at which many interesting scientific papers were 

 read. 



EXPOSITIONS. 



AlasJx'a-Yukon-Pacific Exposition^ Seattle., Washington. — By an 

 act approved May 27, 1908, Congress authorized an exhibition by 

 the Government at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, beginning 

 on June 1 and closing on October 15, 1909, and appropriated for that 

 purpose the sum of $200,000, to be expended under the direction of a 

 board of managers composed of three persons in the employ of the 

 Government. This board was charged with the selection, purchase, 

 preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, 

 and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the several 

 departments and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, re- 

 sjDectively, might decide should be embodied in the exhibition. To 

 aid the people of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands in mak- 

 ing and maintaining appropriate and creditable exhibits of the prod- 

 ucts and resources of thfeir territories, an additional appropriation 

 of $150,000 was provided, to be disbursed under the Secretary of the 

 Interior and the Secretary of War. The Secretary of the Treasury 

 was, furthermore, directed to erect the necessary buildings, for which 

 an appropriation of $250,000 was made. Mr. Jesse E. Wilson, Mr. 

 W. de C. Ravenel, and Mr. W. M. Geddes were appointed as the 

 members of the government board of managers, Mr. Wilson being 

 named as chairman and Mr. Geddes as secretary and disbursing 

 ofHcer. Mr. Ravenel, administrative assistant of the National Mu- 

 seum, was also designated as the special representative of the Institu- 

 tion and Museum. 



In accordance with the provisions of the act, it was the province 

 of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum to exhibit 

 such articles or material of an historical nature as would impart a 

 knowledge of our national history, especially with reference to 

 Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, and that part of the United 

 States west of the Rocky Mountains. Of the appropriation of 

 $200,000, $24,000 was allotted to this exhibit, for which about 10,000 



