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Prehistoric antliropology. — Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Dr. Charles Pea- 

 body, and Dr. George Grant MacCurdy were designated to represent 

 the Smithsonian Institution and the United States at the Fourteenth 

 International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology 

 at Geneva, September 9 to 15, 1912. 



Hygiene and demography. — The Fifteenth International Congress 

 on Hygiene and Demography was held in Washington from Sep- 

 tember 23 to 28, 1912, under the auspices of the Government of the 

 United States, President William Howard Taft serving as honor- 

 ary president. Your secretary was a member of the local committee 

 on organization, and Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the National Museum, 

 served on the interdepartmental committee on exhibits. 



Archeologlcal Congress. — The Third International Congress on 

 Archeology was held at Rome, October 9 to IG, 1912. Upon the 

 nomination of the Smithsonian Institution the Department of State 

 designated Prof. A. L. Frothingham, of Princeton, Prof. George M. 

 Wliicher, secretary of the New York Society of the Archeologlcal 

 Institute of America, and Mr. William H. Buckler, president of the 

 Baltimore Society of the Archeologlcal Institute of America, as dele- 

 gates on the part of the United States at that congi*ess. 



Historical studies. — Prof. J. Franklin Jameson, of the American 

 Historical Association, was designated to act as the representative of 

 the Smithsonian Institution at the International Congress of His- 

 torical Studies held in Ix)ndon, April 3 to 8, 1913, under the auspices 

 of the British Academy in cooperation with British universities, 

 learned societies, and institutions. 



Geological Congress. — Your secretary, as a member of the Twelfth 

 International Congress of Geology, arranged to be at Toronto Au- 

 gust 7 to 14, 1913, and was. appointed to represent the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington and the Washington Academy at that congress. 

 Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology in the National Mu- 

 seum, was appointed a representative of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Congress of Amencctnists. — Arrangements have been progressing 

 during the year in connection with the Nineteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, which has been invited to meet in Wash- 

 ington in 1914, and Mr. W. H. Plolmes, Mr. F. W. Hodge, and Dr. 

 Ales Hrdlicka have been appointed an auxiliary committee to rep- 

 resent the Smithsonian Institution in connection witli, the prelimi- 

 nary details respecting the proposed meeting. 



The State education huilding at Albany was dedicated October 

 16, 1912, on which occasion the secretary presented the formal con- 

 gratulations of the Smithsonian Institution, which is specially in- 

 terested in the city of Albany, for it was there that Joseph Henry, 

 fii'st secretary of the institution, was born in the year 1799, and 

 there Henry began his researches and experiments in electricity 



