REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 
Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian buildings since the 
of the former in 1881. 
57 
OpCniing 
smith- || smith- 
Year Museum | Sonian_ | Year, Museum | Sonian 
building.) ©* | building. 
1 Cee 150,000 | 100,000 || 1895-96 .......2..22..22--200- 180,505 | 108, 650 
HGSvateecck 222 ca ssnceeeaeee: | 167,455 | 152,744 WEBDG 8 hac scene arnscedtsae 229,606 | 115, 709 
1G A oe 202,188 | 104,823 || 1897-98 ........-.....-------- 177, 254 99, 278 
1884 (half year)............ .| 97,661 | 45,565 |} 1898-99 ......22......2.022--- 192,471 116, 912 
WSS4-BD. ooo cee sce mecwnwcenca 205, 026 105, 993 | DB 1 OOS care 5 Griote niece ciao =) =f 225, 440 33, 147 
11 Gl ee | 174) 225.| 88,960 |} 1900-1901 .................-.. 216,556 | 151,563 
IBS =B IG ceee aac tetcinntsccceee: B16; 02") /98)562)'|| WOOL)... 5. 2.2504 sedee tee: 173,888 | 144, 107 
1S AC eee ree ee 249,665 | 102,863 || 1902-8. .................---- | 315,307 181, 174 
(EC ee ee 374,843 | 149,618 || 1903-4 .....2.22.2...-0ee eee 220,778 | 148, 988 
esac see 1 See h Ages ans DARA IDOE G04 |e O04 Gian: sa eeee Sateen e aee 235, 921 149, 380 
1S QUO Meee ee ee i S BEG A20 0) ssl G09!) L056 2s msec eee ace esemiee 210, 886 149, 661 
BOT 0 Die a ete San adie sia DAA F975 | at ELL [ fag S10 sy eg ee | 210, 107 153, 591 
(GSP RCE eee | BIG G30) |) TA, A883 ||, WOUVES seee ce cen Ss ater etelae | 299,659 | 237, 182 
UES ee eres | 195,748 | 103, 910 6, 274, 000 | 3,559, 5.1 
St) 20a eee eee 201,744 | 105,658 || 
CONGRESSES AND MEETINGS. 
The Seventh International Zoological Congress was held in Boston, 
Massachusetts, from August 19 to 23, 1907, under the presidency of 
Dr. Alexander Agassiz. The Smithsonian Institution was officially 
represented by Dr. Theodore Gill, Dr. William Hl. Dall, and Dr. 
Richard Rathbun, and the National Museum by Dr. Frederick W. 
True, head curator of biology, Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of 
reptiles and batrachians, and Dr. Harrison G. Dyar, of the division 
of insects. Several papers were read by members of the Museum 
staff, as follows: Dr. L. O. Howard, curator of insects, The recent 
progress and present condition of economic entomology; Doctor 
True, On the correlation of North American and European genera 
of fossil cetaceans; Doctor Gill, Systematic zoology, its place and 
functions, and The incongruity of inland and marine faunas; 
Doctor Dyar, The distribution of mosquitoes in North America; 
Dr. Marcus W. Lyon, jr., assistant curator of mammals, The dis- 
tribution of bats in the zoogeographical regions; Dr. B. W. Ever- 
mann, curator of fishes, The origin of the golden trout of the 
Southern High Sierra; Doctor Dall, curator of mollusks, Deep 
sea distribution of the molluscan fauna of the northwest coast; Dr. 
Paul Bartsch, assistant curator of mollusks, A study in distribution 
based on the family Pyramidellide of the west coast of America; 
Dr. T. W. Vaughan, custodian of madreporarian corals, Summary 
of results obtained from a study of the recent Madreporaria of the 
Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Organizing secretaries were selected 
from members of the staff, as follows: Dr. Leonhard Stejneger for 
