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which held morning and afternoon sessions on May 9 and 10 and a 

 morning session on May 11, 1912. On the evening of May 10 a 

 memorial meeting was held in conmiemoration of the life and work 

 of Francis Davis Millet, late secretary of the federation, and chair- 

 man of the Smithsonian advisory committee on the National Gallery 

 of Art. Mr. Cass Gilbert, vice president of the federation, presided, 

 and eloquent and feeling tributes were paid by Senator Elihu Root, 

 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. Charles Francis Adams, and Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Many messages and testimonials from friends 

 and art associations were also read. 



On the evening of May 9, 1912, a reception was given, by invita- 

 tion of the Regents and Secretary of the Institution, to meet the 

 foreign delegates to the Ninth International Red Cross Conference, 

 then in session in Washington, the main exhibition story of the build- 

 ing being used. Also, by invitation of the Regents and Secretary, a 

 reception for the visitors in Washington attending the unveiling 

 ceremonies of the Columbus Memorial on the plaza in front of 

 Union Station was tendered, on the evening of June 7, 1912, by the 

 citizens' joint committee on the Columbus statue unveiling, members 

 of which composed the receiving party. Most of the exhibition halls 

 in the first and second stories were opened for the occasion. 



Accommodations were furnished the Anthropological Society of 

 Washington for its regidar meetings, which were mostly held in the 

 afternoon, from October until April. The annual meeting of the 

 National Academy of Sciences continued during the three days from 

 April 16 to 18, inclusive, the committee rooms being used for the 

 business sessions and the auditoriiun for the public sessions. A meet- 

 ing of the Women's Research Club, of Rockville, Md., was held on 

 February 12, 1912, and a large room M'as provided for hearings by 

 the Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture from July 31 to August 2, 1911. 



The auditorium was used for two lectures. The first, on the sub- 

 ject of heterozygosis in pure lines of beans and barley, w^as delivered 

 on the evening of November 14, 1911, by Prof. W. Johannsen, of the 

 University of Copenhagen, Denmark, under the auspices of the 

 AVashington Academy of Sciences and the Botanical Society of 

 Washington. The other, being the third lecture under the Hamilton 

 Fund of the Smithsonian Institution, was given on the evening of 

 February 8, 1912, by Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research, who spoke upon infection and recovery from 

 infection. On the afternoon of February 9, Mrs. M. R. Campbell 

 lectured before the members of the Eistophus Science Club, of Wash- 

 ington, in one of the committee rooms, her subject being the Glacier 

 National Park. 



