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University, while two local scientific societies, the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington and the Entomological Society of Washing- 

 ton, made the building their regular meeting place. 



The National Academy of Sciences held its annual meeting from 

 April 25 to 27, the first evening being given over to an address by 

 His Serene Highness, the Prince of Monaco, followed by a recep- 

 tion by the Regents and secretary of the Institution in the halls 

 assigned to the National Gallery of Art. Other societies holding 

 here their annual gatherings, some lasting several days, included the 

 Northern Nut Growers' Association; the American Ornithologists' 

 Union; the American Farm Economic Association; the American 

 Society of Mammalogists ; the Audubon Society of the District of 

 Columbia ; and the American Institute of Architects. In connection 

 with the last, the Second National Architectural Exhibition, installed 

 in the near-by lobby and foyer, was inaugurated by a special evening 

 opening of the building. 



During its convention in Washington in May, the American Fed- 

 eration of Arts held an afternoon session in the Museum auditorium, 

 and the delegates were tendered a reception by the Regents and secre- 

 tary of the Institution in the National Gallery of Art on the evening 

 of that date, with a special view of the collection of war portraits, 

 brought together by the National Portrait Committee as a nucleus of 

 a national portrait gallery. In connection with the visit of Madame 

 Marie Curie to this country, a meeting was arranged in her honor in 

 the auditorium with a lecture by Dr. R. A. Millikan on radium, the 

 exhibition halls on the two lower floors being thrown open for in- 

 spection during the evening. 



The program of the Washington convention of the American 

 Bankers' Association also included an evening "reception by the 

 Board of Regents and Secretary of the Smithsonian in the Natural 

 History Building. The Southern Commercial Congress, during its 

 meeting in Washington, used the auditorium for presenting to the 

 Department of Agriculture a portrait of the late David Lubin, the 

 Italian ambassador assisting in the ceremonies. 



Meeting facilities were afforded governmental agencies as follows : 

 The Bureau of Public Health Service of the Treasury Department, 

 for an institute on venereal disease control, lasting several clays, 

 and for showing motion pictures relating to its work on several 

 occasions; the Department of Agriculture, for numerous meetings 

 and conferences in relation to the work of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Plant Industry, the 

 States Relations Service, and the Bureau of Markets; the Army 

 Medical School of the War Department, for a lecture by Dr. Hideyo 

 Noguchi, and for the closing exercises of the 1920-21 session of the 



