14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



to the Minister of Agriculture in England, all lectures being open 

 to department workers and others. Other bureaus of this depart- 

 ment using the auditorium were the Forest Service for a series of 

 five lectures extending from October to June, the Bureau of Agri- 

 cultural Economics for an exhibition and talk on the evening of 

 April 20 by Mr. L. M. Estabrook, and the Federal Horticultural 

 Board on June 29 and 30, for public hearings on fruit and rose 

 stocks and the white-pine blister rust (when room 43 was also used), 

 and again on September 20 by the same board for a conference on 

 the white-pine blister rust quarantine. The auditorium and all com- 

 mittee rooms available were used for a national conference on utiliza- 

 tion of forest products called by Secretary Wallace on November 19 

 and 20. On the afternoon of Ma}^ 22, the department's post. Vet- 

 erans of Foreign Wars of the United States, held memorial services 

 in the auditorium in honor of the late Henry C. Wallace, and of the 

 men of the Department of Agriculture who lost their lives in the 

 World War. 



The Department of Commerce occupied the auditorium for the 

 National Kadio Conference on October 7 and 8. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Museum staff, gave two courses of lec- 

 tures on anthropology during the period from October 24 to Decem- 

 ber 19 — Man's Origin, on Friday afternoons in the auditorium, 

 and Man's Physical and Physiological Characteristics, on Monday 

 afternoons in room 43. These proved highly popular and were well 

 attended. 



Under the auspices of the School of Foreign Service, a series of 

 12 lectures were given in the auditorium by Dr. Edmund A. 

 AValsh, S. J., of Georgetown University, on Kussia in Revolution. 

 These extended over a period from February 13 to May 15 and 

 attracted much attention. 



Associations and societies using the auditorium and room 43 for 

 their annual meetings were the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, December 29 to January 3, and the American 

 Society of Mammalogists, April 8 to 10. The American Surgical 

 Association met in the auditorium May 4, 5, and G, and on the same 

 dates the eighth annual meeting of the American Association for 

 Thoracic Surgery was held in room 43. On the evening of Janu- 

 ary 2 the division of insects of the Museum was thrown open to 

 members of the Entomological Society of America and the Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists, who were in attendance at the 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence. 



In addition to the foregoing the auditorium was used on various 

 occasions by the Wild Flower Preservation Society, the Audubon 

 Society of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Dental 



