80 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM^ 1912. 



The Museum was represented at the Fifteenth International Con- 

 gress of Orientalists, held in Athens from April 7 to 14, by Dr. Paul 

 Haupt, associate in historic archeology, and at the Eighteenth Inter- 

 national Congi'ess of Americanists, which met in London from May 

 27 to June 1, by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology. 



EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS FOR THE LINCOLN AND PERRY ME3I0RIALS. 



Two special exhibitions of exceptional interest resulted from the 

 use of accommodations in the new building for the examination of 

 the competitive designs submitted for these two important memorials 

 by the respective commissions designated to pass upon them. The 

 former of these projects was authorized by an act of Congress ap- 

 proved February 9, 1911, providing for a commission to procure 

 and determine upon a location, plan, and design for a monument or 

 memorial in the city of Washington to the memory of Abraham 

 Lincoln. The competitors were Mr. Henry Bacon and Mr. John 

 Eussell Pope, of New York, whose elaborate models and drawings 

 were installed in two of the large rooms opening into the foyer in the 

 ground story during November and December, 1911. Following their 

 inspection by the Commission of Fine Arts and the Lincoln Memorial 

 Commission, the rooms were opened to the public from December 

 26 until the close of the fiscal year. 



The second exhibition, in which 54 competitors were represented, 

 was the outcome of an act of Congress approved March 3, 1911, to 

 promote the erection of a memorial in conjunction with a Perry's 

 victory centennial celebration on Put-in-Bay Island during the year 

 1913 in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 

 Battle of Lake Erie and the northwestern campaign of Gen. William 

 Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. The designs were all in the 

 form of drawings, which were hung on the walls and on screens in 

 one of the long rooms of the east range in the lower story. The in- 

 stallation was made on January 20, 1912, and after inspection by the 

 Commission of Fine Arts and the Interstate Board of Commission- 

 ers it was opened to the public for 10 days, beginning January 31. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



Dr. James M. Flint, medical director, LTnited States Navy (re- 

 tired), under whose supervision the division of medicine was organ- 

 ized in 1881, and who had served as its honoraiy curator during 25 

 of the 32 years of its existence, tendered his resignation during the 

 year. The collection, mainly assembled through the energy and 

 intelligent direction of Dr. Flint, has attained great importance, and 

 it is deeply regi-etted that the severance of this connection will de- 



