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ers and the International Association for Identification also held one 

 session each in the Museum auditorium during their conventions in 

 Washington this year, the meeting of the latter including motion 

 pictures showing the universal methods of finger printing and of the 

 United States Navy in action. 



Other scientific organizations gathering in the Museum included 

 the Anthropological Society of Washington for its annual series 

 of free public meetings, this year 10 in number; the Entomological 

 Society of Washington for its regular monthly meetings from Oc- 

 tober, 1921, to June, 1922; the Federal Photographic Society of 

 Washington for six meetings ; the Wild Flower Preservation Society 

 of America for five Thursday evening lectures; the Audubon So- 

 ciety of the District of Columbia for four meetings; the organizing 

 committee of the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists 

 for a meeting preliminary to the twentieth congress; the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences, the Philosophical Society, and the Chemi- 

 cal Society of Washington for a joint meeting addressed by Dr. 

 F. W. Aston, of Cambridge, England, on " Electric rays and photo- 

 graphing atoms of mineral." Another joint meeting brought to- 

 gether members of the Audubon Society of the District of Colum- 

 bia, the Biological Society of Washington, and the Wild Flower 

 Preservation Society of America for an address by Prof. Arthur 

 C. Pillsbury, with motion pictures, some colored, of wild flowers 

 and birds in the Yosemite Park and the Sierras. 



Inclement weather on November 14, 1921, necessitated the transfer 

 to the Museum auditorium of the exercises in connection with the 

 laying of the corner stone for the Victory Memorial Building or, as 

 it is better known, the George Washington Memorial Building. The 

 ceremonies were presided over by the Hon. John W. Weeks, Secre- 

 tary of War, and consisted of an invocation by Right Rev. Alfred 

 Harding, Bishop of Washington ; addresses by President Harding, 

 General Pershing, and Admiral Coontz, and benediction by Mon- 

 signor C. F. Thomas, of St. Patrick's Church; the audience adjourn- 

 ing then to the site of the building at Sixth and B streets NW., 

 where the corner stone was laid. 



Georgetown University had the auditorium for a series of 15 

 public lectures on international finance arranged by its School of 

 Foreign Service. The topics and speakers were as follows : October 

 14, " The history of international finance," by Dr. Jacob H. Hol- 

 lander : October 21, " The organization of international finance," by 

 Dr. William F. Notz ; October 28, " Private credit in the United States 

 to-day," by Hon. Oscar T. Crosby; November 4, "The public credit 

 of the United States to-day," by Dr. Ernest L. Bogart; November 18, 

 " The public and the private credit of the nations of western Europe," 



