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ranges for the exhibition and storage of collections and for the labo- 

 ratories and workshops are now in use. The moving of the col- 

 lections was begun last summer, and the occupation of the ground 

 floor and third story should be completed b}^ the end of the winter. 

 The fitting up of the two great exhibition floors will require a much 

 greater length of time, but it is expected that some parts of the 

 exhibition collections can be made accessible to the public before 

 the year is ended. 



The heating and electrical plant already installed has developed 

 sufficient capacity to also meet the requirements of the two older 

 buildings. The economy thus effected will be very appreciable. 

 Congress failed to supply means for adapting the upper hall of the 

 Smithsonian building to the purposes of the National Gallery of Art, 

 and a portion of one of the skylighted halls in the new building will 

 be temporaril}' assigned to the paintings. 



Art collection. — After discussion Senator Lodge offered the follow- 

 ing resolutions, v.hich were adopted: 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution hereby author- 

 ize the Secretary of the Institution to issue in their name invitations for a private 

 view of the paintings of the National Gallery of Art upon the completion of their 

 temporary installation in the new building for the National Museum. 



Resolved, further, That the expenses connected with this reception be charged 

 against the funds of the Institution. 



Mount Whitney and Mount Wilson operations. — Under an allot- 

 ment from the Hodgkins fund for the building of a stone and steel 

 hut or shelter on Mount Whitney, California, at an elevation of 

 14,502 feet, the structure has been completed for the use of scientific 

 observers who desire to avail themselves of the unusually favorable 

 atmospheric conditions on that summit. On September 3 Mr. Abbot, 

 director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, made suc- 

 cessful observations there for the determination of the solar constant 

 of radiation. A small cottage has also been erected on Mount 

 Wilson, close to the Smithsonian observatory shelter on that moun- 

 tain, to be used as quarters for the observers. 



Inauguration of president of Harvard University. — In connection 

 with the inauguration of Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell as president 

 of Harvard University on October 6 I visited Cambridge as the 

 representative of the Smithsonian Institution and presented its 

 formal greetings. 



International Congress on Hygiene and DemograpJiy.- — The secretary 

 stated that the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography 

 would be held in Washington from September 26 to October 1, 1910, 

 and he had received a communication from the secretary-general of the 

 congress, Dr. John S. Fulton, stating that a committee of three had 



