22 AISTNUAL REPORT SMITHSOlSTIAlSr INSTITUTION, 1912. 



Prehistoric Anthropology. — Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Dr. Charles Pea- 

 body, and Dr. George Grant MacCurdy were appointed representa- 

 tives of the Smithsonian Institution to the Fourteenth International 

 Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology at Geneva, 

 September 9 to 15, 1912. 



Congress of Orientalists. — Dr. Paul Haupt was appointed repre- 

 sentative of the Smithsonian Institution and designated as delegate 

 of the United States at the Fifteenh International Congress of 

 Orientalists, held at Athens, April 7 to 14, 1912. Additional dele- 

 gates on the part of the United States were Prof. E. Washburn Hop- 

 kins, Prof. A. V. W. Jackson, and Prof. Morris Jastrow, jr. (Un- 

 foreseen circumstances later prevented Prof. Jackson from attending.) 



Congress on Hygiene and Demography. — The Fifteenth Inter- 

 national Congress on Hygiene' and Demography was invited by the 

 Government, through the State Department, to meet in Washington, 

 September 23 to 28, 1912. I accepted the invitation of the depart- 

 ment to serve as a member of the committee on organization. Mr. 

 W. H. Holmes, head curator of anthropologj?" in the National 

 Museum, has been appointed as representative of the Smithsonian 

 Institution on the interdepartmental committee to consider the 

 preparation of exhibits for the congress. At the close of the fiscal 

 year, June 30, 1912, arrangements for the congress were well in hand. 



Congress on Applied Chemistry. — In connection with the Eighth 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry, to be opened in Wash- 

 ington September 4, 1912, and subsequent meetings closing in New 

 York City September 13, Prof. F. W. Clarke has been designated as 

 representative of the Institution, and I have accepted an invitation 

 to attend personal^. 



Royal Society. — Dr. Arnold Hague, of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survej^, was appointed a representative of the Smithsonian 

 Institution at the commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth 

 anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society of London, July 

 ir, to 18, 1912. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL BUILDING. 



There is now pending in the House of Representatives a bill 

 passed by the Senate, April 15, 1912, granting to the George Wash- 

 ington Memorial Association permission to erect on the Government 

 reservation known as Armory Square, a memorial building to cost 

 not less than $2,000,000, " where large conventions or in which large 

 public functions can be held, or Avhere the permanent headquarters 

 and records of national organizations can be administered." By the 

 provisions of the bill the control and administration of the building 

 would be vested in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, and the association is to provide " a permanent endowment 



