REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



09 



LECTURES AND MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Following the custom of previous years, the use of the lecture hall 

 has been granted by the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for a 

 scries of lectures delivered under the joint auspices of the Anthropo- 

 logical, lliological, Chemical, National, Geographic, and Philosophical 

 Societies of Washington.* The programmes of the two parts of the 

 course are as follows : 



PROGRAMME OF HIE FIRST HALF OF THE COURSE. 



Saturday, March 9, 1.15//. m. — Prof. Danikt. C. Gilman: Recent Aspects of Uni- 

 versity Education m this Country. 



Saturday, March 16, 4.15 p. m. — Prof. W. O. Atwater: The Composition of Our 

 Bodies and Our Food. 



Saturday, March 23, 4.15 p. m. — Mr. John Murdoch: Hunting and Fishing Among 

 the Eskimos of Point Barrow. 



Saturday, March 30, 4.15 p. m. — Mr. Henry Wktherbee Henshaw : Who are the 

 American Indians .' 



Saturday, April ti, 4:15 />. m. — Mr. G. K. Gilbert: The History of Niagara Falls. 



programme of the second half of the course. 



Saturday, April 13, 4.15 p. m. — Dr. Washington Matthews: The Catlin Collec- 

 tion of Indian Paintings. (Illustrated by colored-lantern slides.) 



Saturday, April 20, 4.15;;. m. — Prof. E. S. Morse: Art Hand- Works of Japan. 



Saturday. April 27, 4.15 p. m. — Mr. W. E. Curtis : The United States of Colombia. 



Saturday, May 4, 4.15 p. m. — Mr. Everett Hayden : Tropical Cyclones; with 

 Special Reference to the Recent Hurricane at Samoa. (Illustrated by colored lantern- 

 slides. 



Saturday, May 11, 4.15 p. m. — Prof. W. B. Powell: First Steps in Education, 

 Psychologically Considered. 



The following tabic shows the number and dates of "Saturday lect- 

 ures " delivered up to the close of the 188S-'89 course: 



Veal . 



1882.. 

 1883 . . 

 1884 . 



Date of first and last lecture. 



March 11, April 29 ... 

 January 13, March :!1 

 January ~>, April 26... 



1885 February 7, May 2. 



188C March 6, May 8 ... 



March 12, May 7 .. 



Februarj is. May5 



March it. May n 



Total 



No. of 

 leel urea. 



8 

 12 

 17 

 12 

 10 

 12 



12 

 10 



93 



On .May 20, upon the request of the trustees of the Toner fund, Prof. 

 Harrison A lien delivered ;i lecture in connection with the Toner course 

 in the lecture hall of the Museum. The subject of the lecture was 



"The joint committee on lectures is as follows: Dr. Robert Fletcher, chairman ; 



Marcus Baker, Henry Gannett, <'. Hart Merriam, and II. \Y. Wile 



