154 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 
The National Academy of Sciences, in connection with its annual 
meeting from April 21 to 23, held only its public sessions at the 
Museum, which were devoted to the reading of papers during the 
morning and afternoon of the 22d, and the inauguration of the 
William Ellery Hale Lectures by Sir Ernest Rutherford, of the Uni- 
versity of Manchester, England, who spoke on the afternoons of the 
21st and 23d on “ The constitution of matter and the evolution of the 
elements.” 
On the evening of October 20, 1918, His Serene Highness the 
Prince of Monaco delivered an address under the auspices of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences and the Anthropological Society 
of Washington, his subject being “ Researches in oceanography and 
anthropology,” but he spoke mainly upon the former topic, in which 
his own remarkable explorations and studies are so well and widely 
known. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides and motion 
pictures, all relating to the work in connection with his own vessels, 
and the latter were of a remarkable character, including vivid scenes 
at sea, the depiction of which in this manner had never before been 
attempted. 
On December 10 Dr. AleS Hrdlitka, of the Museum staff, spoke 
before the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on prehis- 
toric pathology on the American continent, with demonstrations of 
extensive recently acquired medical and surgical material from the 
collections of the Museum. An illustrated lecture on the fauna of 
the Pleistocene asphalt at Rancho La Brea, Cal., was delivered on 
January 8 by Prof. John C. Merriam, of the University of California, 
under the auspices of the Washington Academy of Sciences; and on 
February 4 Dr. Josef Schumpeter, the Austrian exchange professor 
for Columbia University, lectured under the auspices of the George 
Washington University on “The Balkan situation.” One of the 
semimonthly meetings of the Washington Society of Engineers, held 
in the auditorium on February 5, was devoted to addresses on the 
Navajo, Papago, Pueblo, and Menominee Indians by Dr. Samuel A. 
Eliot, Mr. Edward E. Ayer, and Mr. William H. Ketcham, members 
of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners, and by Dr. 
Joseph K. Dixon, leader of the Rodman Wanamaker expedition, 
motion pictures taken by this expedition being also shown. A lec- 
ture entitled “ The musical uplift” was given by Mr. John C. Freund, 
editor of Musical America, on February 6, under the District of 
Columbia Chapter of the Guild of American Organists, the Rubin- 
stein Club, and the Piano Teachers’ Association; and on March 24 
Mr. Henry C. Gauss spoke on “The Braddock trail,” before the 
Columbia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
“Richard Wagner’s Parsifal Dichtung” was the subject of an ad- 
dress before the Germanistic Society of Washington on April 2, by 
