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Boas, of the Amcric-iui Museum of Niitural History; Mr. Marshall II. 

 Savillo, of the CoUuiibia I'liiversity; Di-. (Jcoroc II. Dorscy, of (he 

 Field C'olumhian Museum, and Doctoi- Cuiiicr, of the Catholic 

 University of America. 



CotKjrcKK of Zoology. — Messrs. Leonhard Stejneocr and (Jerrit S. 

 Miller, jr., of the United States National Museun), were appointed 

 representatives of the Institution and the Museum at the Sixth Inter- 

 national Congress on Zoology, to be held at Berne, Switzerland, 

 August 14-19. 



Congress of EdnattloD.—Dv. C^rus Adler was api)ointed delegate 

 of the Smithsonian Institution to the International Congress of Edu- 

 cation, held in St. Louis June 28 to July 1, li)()4, but finding it impos- 

 sible to attend he was represented by Dr. Marcus W. Lyon, jr., of the 

 National Museum. 



Congress of Orientalists.— Vroi. Baul Haupt, honorary curator of 

 the Division of Historic Archeology in the United States National 

 Museum, was appointed representative of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the National Museum at the Fourteenth International Congress of 

 Orientalists, to be held at Algiers in April, 11»0.5. 



Congress of Geology.— Mv. Charles Schuchert, of the National 

 Museum, was appointed delegate of the Institution to the Ninth Inter- 

 national (Geological Congress held at Vienna, August 20-29 1903. He 

 reports that there were 355 meniljers in attendance, including 22 from 

 the United States. The standard of the papers presented was high. 

 One day was occupied l)y 7 speakers from \arious parts of the world 

 in presenting a synopsis of present knowledge of crystalline rocks. 

 Another day was devoted to "Faults and Clefts," and a third day was 

 given to a presentation of the geology of the Balkan Peninsula and 

 the Orient. 



Archceologlml Congress.— ^x. Franz Boas was appointed United 

 States delegate to the Congress of the Archaeological and Historical 

 Federation of Belgium, to be held at Mons in July and August, IlMll. 



Louisiana Pxrchase Exposition.— liy an act of Congress approved 

 March 3, 1901, liberal provision was made for an exhibit at the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition by the Executive Departments, the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, the Fish Conunission, 

 and the Department of Labor, "of such articles and objects as illus- 

 trate the functions and administrative faculty of the (iovernment in 

 time of peace and its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate 

 the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the 

 people.'' The preparation of this exhibit was j)laced in charge of a 

 Government board upon which Dr. Fred(>rick W. True, head curator 

 of the department of biology in the National Museum, was appointed 

 as representative of the Smithsonian Institution. The exposition was 



