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cises of the Army Medical School session 1919-20; for the fourth 

 Hamilton fund lecture by the Rev. Dr. Charles E. Jefferson on 

 " The old order and the new " ; the National Research Council, for a 

 lecture by Dr. John J. Carty on the wireless telephone, illustrated 

 by talking motion pictures ; the District of Columbia Minimum Wage 

 Board, to bring together the women employed in hotels, restaurants, 

 apartment houses, and hospitals of Washington, that they might 

 select representatives to serve on the minimum-wage conference 

 for this industry ; the public schools of the District, for lantern-slide 

 talks on trees, birds, and gardens by Mrs. Susan Sipe Alburtis before 

 children of the public schools of south Washington; the Southern 

 Society of Washington, for a lyceum on five Wednesday evenings 

 during the winter and spring ; the Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ington, for its gatherings of the 1919-20 season ; the Anthropological 

 Society and the Washington Academy of Sciences, for a lecture by 

 Dr. W. H. R. Rivers on ethnology, its aims and needs; the Wash- 

 ington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, for a 

 lecture by Sir Bertram Windle on the megalithic monuments of 

 Great Britain ; for a special exhibition of motion pictures of national 

 forests before delegates to the annual convention of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association; the Audubon Society of the District 

 of Columbia, for its annual meeting, with lectures by Dr. Paul 

 Bartsch on the birds of the District of Columbia, and again for an 

 illustrated lecture by Dr. William L. Finley on wild game; the Wild 

 Flower Preservation Society ; the Consumers' League of the District 

 of Columbia, for addresses by Hon. William B. Colver and Mrs. 

 Florence Kelley on the cost of living from the consumer's standpoint ; 

 the committee in charge of " Be-kind-to-animals week," for an illus- 

 trated lecture by Mr. Ernest Harold Baines on the part played by 

 animals in the war, and again for organizing a " Good-to-animals 

 society"; the TJ. S. S. Jacob Jones Post No. 2 of the American 

 Legion, to celebrate its first anniversary ; the Association of Appoint- 

 ment Clerks ; the Smithsonian Auxiliary of the District of Columbia 

 Chapter of the American Red Cross ; the Smithsonian Relief Asso- 

 ciation, for its annual meeting; for awarding the prizes for the 

 Evening Star Army enlistment essays; the Washington Society of 

 Engineers for a discussion of the preliminary report of the engineer- 

 ing council's committee on classification and compensation of Govern- 

 ment engineers ; and the Washington section of the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers. 



The work of the Congressional Joint Commission on Reclassifica- 

 tion of Salaries created great activity among the civil employees of 

 the Government in Washington, and the Museum afforded a meeting 

 place for the scientific-technical section of the Federal Employees' 

 Union No. 2, to complete the organization of the section, for a sym- 



