22 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



his death for a building of appropriate design and proportion, pro- 

 vided the Institution would undertake its maintenance. The objects 

 include a remarkable collection of the Avorks of the late J. A. McNeil 

 Whistler and a number of oriental art objects. The proposal of 

 Mr. Freer is still under consideration by the Board of Regents. 



HAMILTON LECTURE. 



A number of years ago Mr. James Hamilton left a small bequest to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, the income of which was to be appro- 

 priated biennially by the Secretary, either in money or a medal, for 

 such contribution, paper, or lecture on any scientific or useful sub- 

 ject as the Secretary might approve. 



The Regents of the Institution decided to let this small sum accu- 

 mulate, and it is only recently that the Secretary has found himself 

 jible to commence to employ the income as a lecture fund. The first 

 address under the auspices of this fund was delivered by Dr. Andrew 

 D. White, LL. D., D. C. L., in the lecture hall of" the National 

 Museum on March 9, 1905, and was entitled " The Diplomatic Serv- 

 ice of the United States with some Hints toward its Reform." 



This lecture was printed by the Smithsonian Institution as a pam- 

 phlet of some twenty pages and was distributed to members of Con- 

 gress, officers of the Department of State, various members of the 

 diplomatic corps, the libraries of the larger universities, presidents of 

 colleges, and others likely to be interested in the important question 

 discussed. 



SMITHSONIAN DELEGATES AT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES. 



Congress on Zoology. — Messrs. Leonhard Stejneger and Gerrit S. 

 Miller, jr., of the United States National Museum, represented the 

 Institution and Museum at the Sixth International Congress on 

 Zoology held at Berne, Switzerland, August 14-19, 1904. 



Congress of Americanists. — Mr. William H. Holmes, Chief of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, represented the Institution at the 

 Fourteenth International Congress of Americanists held at Stutt- 

 gart, August 18-23, 1904. He delivered an address on the " Contri- 

 butions of American Archeology to Human History " and pre- 

 sented to the congress a set of 75 bound volumes relating mainly to 

 American archeology and ethnology, published by the Smithsonian 

 Institution and its two Bureaus — the National Museum and the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Congress of Orientalists. — Prof. Paul Haupt, honorary curator of 

 the Division of Historical Archeology, United States National 

 Museum, represented the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum 

 at the Fourteenth International Congress of Orientalists held at 

 Algiers in April, 1905. 



