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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 109 
showing the actual amount of tuberculosis existing. This work was 
prepared by Dr. Ales Hrdlitka, of the National Museum, who visited 
the Menominee, Sioux, Quinault, Hupa, and Mohave tribes. The 
congress expressed its appreciation of it by awarding the Institution 
a gold medal. 
The secretary added that the prize of $1,500 offered by the Institu- 
tion for the best essay ‘“‘On the relation of atmospheric air to tuber- 
culosis”’ had aroused widespread interest among the students on this 
subject, and had resulted in the receipt by the Institution of eighty- 
one papers submitted in competition. All of these had been referred 
to a committee for consideration, but the award had not yet been 
made. 
Use of B street north of National Museum as a market place-—The 
secretary stated that the new building for the National Museum 
would be occupied during the coming summer; that the occupation of 
B street north of this building as a market place was a serious ob- 
jection and that it was very desirable that the street be vacated by 
hucksters and market men. On behalf of the executive committee he 
offered the following resolution, which, after discussion, was adopted: 
Resolved, That in the judgment of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, provision should be made at the earliest practicable moment for the abolition of 
the use of B street north of the National Museum, between Ninth and Twelfth streets, 
as a market place. 
Tt was suggested that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
be communicated with before calling the attention of Congress to the 
matter. 
Prize essay on fisheries —In response to an invitation from the 
International Fishery Congress, the fourth session of which was held 
in Washington, September 22 to 26, 1908, the Institution made an 
allotment of $200 from the Smithsonian fund for the best essay or 
treatise on ‘‘ International regulation of the fisheries on the high seas; 
their history, objects, and results.” 
As announced by the general secretary of the congress, the award 
was made to Mr. C. H. Stevenson, statistician, U.S. Bureau of Fish- 
eries, and the amount has been paid to him. 
Transfer of Greenough’s Washington statue to the Smithsonian 
Institution —The secretary said that on January 31, 1908, Repre- 
sentative James R. Mann introduced in the House a joint resolution 
(H. J. Res. 124) for the presentation to the Smithsonian Institution 
of the Greenough statue of Washington, located in the Capitol 
grounds, “to aid that Institution in its efforts to establish a national 
gallery of art in the city of Washington.” The resolution was referred 
to the Committee on the Library, from which it was reported, striking 
out the reference to the national gallery of art. The joint resolution 
was agreed to in the House on March 17, 1908, and later reported 
