KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY 45 



Kehabilitation of Civilian Disabled, under the Federal Board of 

 Vocational Education; a series of health lectures by emi- 

 nent physicians arranged by The Woman's Welfare Associa- 

 tion on alternate Sunday afternoons from January 13 to April 

 27, inclusive; the celebration by the Shakespeare Society of Wash- 

 ington of the tercentenary (1623-1923) of the publication of the 

 first folio of Shakespearean plays on November 7 and 8, and a bene- 

 fit for the National Monticello Association by the same society on 

 December 12; the fifth annual meeting of the American Classical 

 League; a series of lectures for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts; the 

 regular meetings of the 1923-24 season of the Anthropological So- 

 ciety of Washington, the Entomological Society of Washington, the 

 American Horticultural Society, and the Washington (D. C.) Chap- 

 ter of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of America; two 

 meetings by the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia ; and 

 single meetings under the auspices of the Washington Society of 

 Engineers, the Writers' League of Washington, the Southern Mary- 

 land Immigration Commission for the purpose of organizing a gar- 

 den home association, the Potomac Garden Club, the Light Bear- 

 ers of Washington, the Puerto Rico Society of Washington, Fed- 

 eral Post No. 824 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United 

 States, the Federal Photographic Society, and the Smithsonian 

 Relief Association. 



The exhibition halls were opened for four evening receptions. On 

 November 13 a reception was tendered to the delegates and 

 friends of the Southern Medical Association, then holding its seven- 

 teenth annual meeting in Washington. On January 22 the Archae- 

 ological Society of Washington, affiliated with the Archaelog- 

 ical Institute of America, arranged for a reception in the space 

 assigned the National Gallery or Art, immediately following a lec- 

 ture in the auditorium by Count Byron Kuhn de Prorok on " Ex- 

 cavations in Carthage." On April 22 the regents gave a reception 

 to the members and friends of the American Chemical Society, as a 

 part of their spring meeting in Washington, April 21-25, which 

 was unusually well attended. On May 22 the first floor and the 

 foyer rooms on the ground floor were thrown open for the reception 

 to the delegates to the National Conference on Outdoor Recreation. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The number of visitors to the Natural History Building during 

 the year aggregated 540,776; to the Arts and Industries Building, 

 290,012; to the Aircraft Building, 43,534; and to the Museum ex- 

 hibition halls in the Smithsonian Building, 104,601. 



As a mark of respect to President Warren G. Harding, all the 

 exhibition halls, as well as the offices, were closed at noon, August 3. 



