42 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1930 



January 7, on January 21 by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, on February 4 

 by Dr. Clark Wissler, on February 18 by Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, 

 and on March 4 by Mr. Neil M. Judd. On January 14 Dr. Hrdlicka 

 delivered an address on Organic Evolution before the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, and on February 20, Prof. E. W. Berry of 

 Johns Hopkins University spoke before the same organization on 

 the Origin and Evolution of Plants. On April 16 Dr. Charles B. 

 Davenport of the Carnegie Institution of Washington lectured on 

 the Mechanism of Organic Evolution. 



The Food Standards Committee of the Food, Drug, and Insecti- 

 cide Administration, United States Department of Agriculture, held 

 a public hearing on April 30 in room 43. On January 15 the Mary- 

 land-Virginia Farmers' Marketing Association held a business meet- 

 ing in the auditorium. The seventh National and fifth Interna- 

 tional Oratorical Contest for the Evening Star area was held in 

 the auditorium on May 8, with J. Loren Freund of Gonzaga Col- 

 lege, Miss Virginia Carr, of Oakton High School, Va., and Miss 

 Frances Gertrude McKim, St. Mary's Seminary, St. Mary's City, 

 Md., as speakers. On May 27 the sixth annual National Spelling 

 Bee was held in the auditorium. From June 18 to 20 the United 

 States Public Health Service held a conference with State and 

 Territorial health officers in room 43. Addresses were made by Dr. 

 Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, Surg. Gen. H. S. 

 Cumming, and others. 



From June 18 to 24 the meeting rooms were used by the Extension 

 Service of the United States Department of Agriculture for confer- 

 ences in connection with the 4-H Club camp. 



A memorial meeting was held August 16 to commemorate the 

 service to science of the late Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of 

 geology of the United States National Museum. 



On the evening of December 10 the formal opening of the exhibi- 

 tion of paintings purchased under the Henry Ward Ranger bequest 

 was held in the National Gallery of Art from 9 to 11. The District 

 of Columbia section of the Woman's Auxiliary to the American 

 Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers arranged a recep- 

 tion in the National Gallery rooms on December 26 for ladies in 

 attendance at the meetings of the Geological Society of America. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The exhibition halls of the National Museum were open during 

 the year on week days from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. and with the excep- 

 tion of the aircraft building were open Sunday afternoons from 1.30 

 to 4.30; all museum buildings remained closed on December 24 and 

 25, in accordance with presidential order, and were closed also on 

 New Year's Day. 



