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Conference held in the Museum auditorium from January 2 to 6, 

 this interesting exhibition was opened with a special view on the 

 evening of the second and the majority of the paintings remained on 

 display until March. It was supplemented by series of photo- 

 graphs, studies in oil, and other pictorial matter shown in several 

 rooms. 



The other special exhibitions were as follows: Twenty oil paint- 

 ings and 1 bronze group, by Edwin Willard Deming, illustrating 

 the old-time Indian, his war, hunting, and religious life and mythol- 

 ogy ; a collection of 27 oil portraits and other paintings by Orlando 

 Rouland, which was opened on the evening of April 2, and was es- 

 pecially noteworthy for the number of prominent men represented; 

 and a collection of 48 paintings, mostly portraits, by the Eussian 

 painter, Ossip Perelma, which began on April 28. 



Mention should also be made of the ceremonies attending the pres- 

 entation to the Gallery by the Emmet Statue Committee of the 

 bronze full-length figure of Robert Emmet by Jerome Connor, which 

 took place in the rotunda of the new building on the afternoon of 

 June 28. A distinguished audience, including the President of the 

 United States and other high officials of the Government, was in 

 attendance and several addresses were made. 



MEETINGS AND CONGRESSES. 



The accommodations afforded by the auditorium and committee 

 rooms in the natural history building were utilized on many occa- 

 Bions. Three courses of lectures, extending from November to April, 

 were given under the auspices of the Washington Society of the Fine 

 Arts, while three other local societies, the Anthropological Society of 

 Washing-ton, the District of Columbia Dental Society, and the So- 

 ciety of Federal Photographers, also made this building their regular 

 meeting place. 



The National Academy of Sciences had its annual meeting in 

 April, and lectures were delivered under the auspices of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences, the War College, the Audubon Society 

 of the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Commercial Economics, 

 the Washington Center of the Drama League of America, the 

 Shakespeare Society of Washington, and George Washington Uni- 

 versity. 



Several bureaus of the Department of Agriculture made use of 

 the auditorium or committee rooms for conferences and hearings, and 

 meetings were held by four societies representing special fields of 

 agricultural subjects. The exhibition halls in the natural history 

 building were opened one evening for the benefit of the Ohio Corn 

 Boys and Domestic Science Girls, then visiting Washington. Other 

 meetings of a governmental character were as follows: By the Na- 



