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of the International Congress on Tuberculosis ; Dr. Simon Flexner, 

 Director, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; Dr. George M. 

 Sternberg, Surgeon-General, U. S. A., retired; Dr. Hermann M. 

 Biggs, of the Department of Health, New York city; Dr. George 

 Dock, of the University of Michigan, and Prof. William M. Davis, 

 of Harvard University. The Secretary of the Institution was a 

 member of the head committee on International Congress on Tuber- 

 culosis. 



Fishery Congress. — In connection with the Fourth International 

 Fishery Congress in Washington, September 22-26, 1908, the Insti- 

 tution made an allotment of $200 from the Smithsonian fund for the 

 best essay or treatise on "International regulations of the fisheries on 

 the high seas; their history, objects, and results." This prize was 

 awarded by the International Jury to Mr. Charles H. Stevenson, of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. The Institution was officially repre- 

 sented by Dr. Theodore Gill and Dr. Frederick W. True, and the 

 National Museum by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger and Mr. W. deC. 

 Ravenel. 



Congress of Orientalists. — At the fifteenth session of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Orientalists, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 

 August 14-20, 1908, Dr. Paul Haupt, of the United States National 

 Museum and Johns Hopkins University, represented the Institution. 

 Upon recommendation of the Institution the following gentlemen 

 were designated by the Department of State as delegates on the part 

 of the United States Government : Dr. Paul Haupt ; Dr. C. R. Lan- 

 man, of Harvard University ; Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and Prof. A. V. W. Jackson, of Columbia 

 University. 



Congress of Americanists. — The Sixteenth International Con- 

 gress of Americanists was held in Vienna, Austria, September 9-14, 

 1908. Dr. Franz Boa's, of Columbia University, represented the 

 Institution ; and the Department of State, at the suggestion of the 

 Institution, designated, besides Doctor Boas, the following-named 

 gentlemen delegates on the part of the United States Government : 

 Prof. Marshall H. Saville, of Columbia ; Dr. George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, of Yale ; Dr. Charles Peabody, of Harvard, and Dr. Paul 

 Haupt, of Johns Hopkins. 



Pan-American Scientific Congress. — At the First Pan-.\meri- 

 can Scientific Congress held in Santiago. Chile, December 25. 1908, 

 to January 5, 1909, Mr. W. H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of 



