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Inteiifiational Congress on Tuberculosis. — In connection ^yith the 

 Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis to be held in the new 

 United States National Museum building in Washington, September 

 21 to October 12, 1908, the Institution has offered from the Hodgkins 

 fund a prize of $1,500 for the best paper " On the relation of atmos- 

 pheric air to tuberculosis," mention of which is made elsewhere in 

 this report. 



The Secretary of the Institution is a member of the head committee 

 on International Congress on Tuberculosis. 



Centenarij^ London Geological Society. — The centenary celebration 

 of the Geological Society of London Avas held September 26, 27, and 

 28, 1907, at which the Smithsonian Institution and the United States 

 National Museum were represented by Dr. Arnold Hague. Doctor 

 Hague reported the gathering of a distinguished body of eminent 

 geologists from all parts of the world. 



Mathematical Congress. — The Fourth International Congress of 

 Mathematicians met at Rome, April 6-11, 1908. The Institution was 

 represented by Prof. Simon Newcomb. 



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

 tional Congress of Orientalists, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 

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

 Museum and Johns Hopkins Universit}^, has been designated to rep- 

 resent the Institution. Upon recommendation of the Institution the 

 following gentlemen have been designated by the Department of 

 State as delegates on the part of the United States Government: 

 Dr. Paul Haupt; Dr. C. R. Lanman, of Harvard University; Prof. 

 Morris Jastrow, jr., of the University of Pennsylvania; and Prof. 

 A. V. W. Jackson, of Columbia University. 



Congress of Americanists. — The Sixteenth International Congress 

 of Americanists will be held in Vienna, Austria, September 8-14, 

 1908. Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, has been named 

 to represent the Institution ; and the Department of State, at the sug- 

 gestion of the Institution, has 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 McCurdy, of Yale; Dr. Charles Peabody, of Harvard; and 

 Dr. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins. 



Fishery Congress. — In connection with the International Fishery 

 Congress, to meet 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 regulation of the fisheries on 

 the high seas; their history, objects, and results."' 



Other congresses and meetings. — At the meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences in New York, November 19-21, 1907, your 

 Secretary presented a brief resume of some of his special geological 



