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American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, represented the 

 United States in the section of anthropology and ethnology. 



ArcheologicaIv Congress. — At the Second International Archeo- 

 logical Congress to be held in Cairo, Egypt, at the Latin Easter, 

 1909, upon suggestion of the Institution, Dr. Albert M. Lythgoe, of 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Prof. Paul Baur, 

 of Yale University, will represent the United States. 



Congress for History of Religions. — Prof. Paul Haupt, of the 

 National Museum and Johns Hopkins University, and Prof. Morris 

 Jastrow, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania, were official dele- 

 gates on the part of the United States to the Third International 

 Congress for the History of Religions, held in Oxford, September 

 15-18, 1908. 



Other Congresses. — The Smithsonian Institution subscribed to 

 membership in the Ninth International Geographical Congress in 

 Geneva, July 27 to August 6, 1908, and in the First International 

 Congress on Refrigerating Industries, held in Paris, October, 5-10, 

 1908. 



Naples Zoological Station 



In addition to the assignments of the Smithsonian seat at the 

 Naples Zoological Station for the first months of 1909, announced in 

 the last edition of the Quarterly Issue, the application of Mr. H. D. 

 Senior, of the College of Medicine, Syracuse, N. Y., has been ap- 

 proved for the month of July. 



