28 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921, 
use of the meeting facilities were the Commission of Fine Arts, on 
January 20 and 21, and the Federal Board of Vocational Education 
on June 13. 
The eleventh annual meeting of the American Farm Economic 
Association occupied the auditorium and committee room with after- 
noon and evening sessions on December 30, morning and afternoon 
sessions on December 31, and a morning session on January 1. On 
December 30 room 42-43 was utilized for a conference of representa- . 
tives of national organizations engaged in rural social work with 
day and evening sessions. 
The annual convention of the Northern Nut Growers’ Association 
convened in the auditorium, with morning and evening sessions on 
October 7, and morning and afternoon sessions on October 8, and an 
exhibit of nuts and mats in room 42-48. 
The American Institute of Architects was granted the auditorium, 
committee rooms, and the central portion of the foyer for the fifty- 
fourth annual convention of the institute, from May 11 to 13, and 
the Second National Architectural Exhibition, from May 12 to 19, 
inclusive, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging a wider 
public interest in architecture. In connection with this convention 
the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture met in room 
42-43, on May 9 and 10, with an evening session in the auditorium 
on the latter date. The sessions of the institute included, besides 
meetings each day in the auditorium and room 42-48, one evening ses- 
sion in the auditorium on May 11 and a morning session on May 14 in 
room 42-43, The exhibition was inaugurated with a formal view 
on the evening of May 12, when the foyer and north lobby were 
opened to the invited guests of the institute and the public from 
8.30 to 11 p.m. The drawings, photographs, etc., of this collection 
were installed on temporary floor screens placed either side and down 
the central portion of the foyer. A number of the exhibits of the war 
collections were inclosed by the screens, some of the cases being moved 
between the piers, and screens built on either side of them. The 
walls in the auditorium lobby were also used for exhibiting drawings 
and photographs, and a special exhibit belonging to the Architects’ 
Small House Service Bureau, of Minnesota, was installed on portable 
screens against the south wall of the north lobby, either side of the 
entrance to the foyer. 
The twelfth annual convention of the American Federation of 
Arts convened in Washington on May 18, 19, and 20, 1921. The 
afternoon session on the 18th was held in the Museum auditorium 
and was devoted to the general subject of art and the people. It 
was opened with a demonstration by Mr. Ross Crane. of the Better 
Homes Institute of the Art Institute of Chicago, of “ Art in the 
home.” The stage was set as a living room, with mantel, windows, 
