48 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1&20. 



work of human uplift and social service, its motto being " Every 

 citizen as patriotic in community service as the soldier was in Avar 

 service.'' 



The Southern Society of Washington arranged a lyceum in the 

 auditorium on five Wednesday evenings, open to the public as well 

 as to its members. On February 4, Hon. Philander P. Claxton, Com- 

 missioner of Education, gave an interesting talk on a national system 

 of education. On February 18, the Hon. J. Thomas Hefiin of Ala- 

 bama discussed preparedness and some of the important problems of 

 the day, including the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations. On 

 March 3 Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida delivered an inspir- 

 ing address on some present peace problems, which was followed by a 

 musical program. On March 17, after a brief business session, Mr. 

 Claude N. Bennett, past President of the Society, spoke on the 

 Southern Renaissance, or the South of today and tomorrow, illus- 

 trated with pictures showing conditions of the past and the present. 

 The last lecture, on March 31, was by Mr. John Barrett, Director of 

 the Pan American Union, his subjects being the influence of women 

 in the past and future, and the Pan American Union, what it means 

 to the world and what it has accomplished for the United States and 

 the Western Hemisphere. 



The Anthropological Society of Washington, as usual, used the 

 Museum for its gatherings of the 1919-1020 season, holding 9 meet- 

 ings between October 7 and April 28, all in the committee room 

 except that on the afternoon of February 3, when the larger assembly 

 loom was required for an illustrated lecture by Mr. Sylvanus Gris- 

 wold Morley on the foremost civilization of ancient America. The 

 subjects discussed in other meetings included field experiences by 

 Messrs. J. Walter Fewkes, J. P. Harrington, J. X. B. Hewitt, Walter 

 Hough. A. Hrdlicka, X. M. Judd, T. Michelson, J. R. Swanton, and 

 F. La Flesche; and lectures by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes on the genesis 

 of cliff-dwellings, by Mr. Gerard Fowke on the explorations of caves 

 in the Ozark region, Missouri, and by Mr. J. A. Jeangon on antiqui- 

 ties of the Jemez Pleateau, New Mexico. The auditorium was also 

 used, on the evening of March 6, for a lecture by Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, 

 of Cambridge, England, on " Ethnology : Its Aims and Needs," under 

 the joint auspices of the Anthropological Society and the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences: and on the afternoon of April 16 for a lec- 

 ture by Sir Bertram Windle, the eminent English anthropologist, on 

 the megalithic monuments of Great Britain, under the auspices of 

 the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. 



The Audubon Society of the District of Columbia had the audi- 

 torium on two evenings — on January 27, 1920, for its annual meet- 

 ing with an illustrated lecture by Dr. Paul Bartsch on the birds of 



