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S. Minot, of the Harvard Medical School, "The changes in the animal 

 cell during rejuvenation and severance," and Dr. R. G. Harrison, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, "New investigations and observations on 

 the development of the peripheral nerves of vertebrates." 



Mr. William II. Holmes, chief of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, besides visiting some of the principal European museums 

 in behalf of the National Museum, attended the Fourteenth' Inter- 

 national Congress of Americanists at Stuttgart, Germany, from 

 August IS to 23, 1904, as the representative of the Museum and Insti- 

 tution and of the Government. Other official American delegates 

 were- the Due de Loubat, a patron of American archeological 

 research; Dr. Paul llaupt, of the National Museum and Johns Hop- 

 kins University; Dr. Franz Boas, of the American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, and Rev. C. W. Currier, of the Catholic University of 

 America. A number of papers were read dealing with questions of 

 American history, ethnology, and archeology. Mr. Holmes presided 

 at a meeting of the Congress on August 20, and on the same day deliv- 

 ered an address on "Contributions of American archeology to the 

 science of man." Dr. Franz Boas read a paper on the "Influence of 

 the social foundation of the Kwakiutl Indians upon their culture;" 

 and Rev. C. W. Currier one on "The Indian languages of the United 

 States." The Smithsonian Institution presented to the Congress, 

 through its representative, a set of 75 bound volumes relating mainly 

 to American archeology and ethnology, published by the Institution 

 and two of its bureaus — the National Museum and the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology — as well as a set of photographs of American 

 Indians, furnished jointly by the Bureau and the Museum. 



Dr. Paul Haupt, associate in historic archeology, was a delegate of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum at the Second 

 International Congress for the General History of Religions, at Basle, 

 August 30 to September 2, 1904, and again at the Fourteenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Orientalists, held in Algiers during April,1905. 

 Dr. Cyrus Adler, of the Institution and Museum, acted as the repre- 

 sentative of the United States on the committee on organization for 

 the latter Congress. 



The Institution, the Museum, and the Government were repre- 

 sented at the Second International Botanical Congress, held in Vienna, 

 Austria, from June 11 to 18, 1905, by Mr. Frederick V. Coville, curator 

 of the division of plants, Mr. William F. Wight, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, also being present as a delegate from the Museum. 



Dr. Leonhard Stejneger attended, on behalf of the Institution and 

 Museum, the Fourth International Ornithological Congress at Lon- 

 don, from June 12 to 17, 1905, and will also act for the Institution at 

 the Convention on the International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 

 ture to be held in London on July 25, 1905. 



