REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 43 



ice of Georgetown University, the American University, Howard 

 University, the Garden Club of Washington, the Southern Society 

 of Washington, and the Eeserve Officers' Association of the District 

 of Columbia. 



At the Twentieth International Congress of Americanists at Rio 

 de Janeiro, Brazil, August 20 to September 3, 1922, the Institution 

 was represented by Dr. Walter Hough, head curator of anthropology 

 in the Museum, and Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthro- 

 pology in the Museum, who served also as delegates on the part of 

 the United States Government. Another member of the Museum 

 staff, Dr. E. O. Ulrich, associate in paleontology, represented the 

 Institution at the Thirteenth International Geological Congress meet- 

 ing in Brussels, Belgium, August 10 to 19, 1922. The Museum was also 

 represented at the eighteenth annual meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Museums, held in Charleston, S. C, April 4 to 7, Mr. 

 F. L. Lewton and the writer serving as delegates. 



The Museum was the scene of several receptions. On the evening 

 of December 19 the halls of the Museum assigned to the National 

 Gallery of Art were opened for a reception following a lecture in the 

 auditorium under the auspices of the Anthropological Society of 

 Washington and the Archaeological Society of Washington. Oppor- 

 tunity was thus afforded for inspecting the collection of Chihuahua 

 pottery belonging to the latter society. On January 9 the Archaeo- 

 logical Society and the Art and Archaeological League of Washing- 

 ton held a reception in the National Gallery of Art following an 

 evening lecture by Count Byron Kuhn de Prorok, with a first view 

 of a rare collection of antique jewelry recently lent to the society by 

 one of its members, Mr. Kurt Walter Bachstitz, of The Hague. 

 Another large reception was that to the National Academy of 

 Sciences on the evening of April 23, in honor of Dr. W. W. Camp- 

 bell. This followed a lecture in the auditorium by Doctor Campbell. 



The exhibition halls on the first floor of the Natural History 

 Building were the setting for a conversazione on the evening of 

 February 3, as a part of the program in celebration of the centenary 

 of the birth of Spencer Fullerton Baird, the second secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. The Marine Band furnished music during 

 the evening. A meeting of Girl Scout leaders in the auditorium on 

 the evening of April 25 was the occasion for opening all the exhibi- 

 tion halls in the building from 6.30 to 11 p. m. to enable the Girl 

 Scouts, their leaders, parents, and friends to view the collections. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The number of visitors to the Natural History Building during 

 the year aggregated 508,518; to the Arts and Industries Building, 

 259,542: to the Smithsonian Building, 95,168; and to the Aircraft 



