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with various phases of agricultural research and demonstration work 
by the Department. An apparatus devised by Dr. Wiener, of Vienna, 
for the treatment of milk was demonstrated by him, under the 
auspices of the Bureau of Animal Industry, on February 20; and a 
conference between representatives of the naval stores industry and 
the Bureau of Chemistry was held on March 5 and 6. A conference 
between the department and the woolgrowers took place on June 2, 
3, and 4, and was accompanied by an excellent exhibition of wool 
specimens installed in the foyer. On the evening of June 26 the 
exhibition halls in the first story were opened to afford an opportunity 
for the officers and employees of the Department to unite in an 
informal reception to Dr. B. T. Galloway, Assistant Secretary of 
Agriculture, who had recently resigned from that position to take 
up university work. 
As associated with the objects of the Department of Agriculture 
may be mentioned here a meeting of the American Pomological 
Society in conjunction with the Eastern Fruit Growers Association, 
the Northern Nut Growers Association, and the Society for Horti- 
cultural Science, which was held during what was termed “ Fruit 
Week,” or from November 17 to 22, 1918. Use was made of the 
auditorium and committee rooms, and the entire foyer was occupied 
for exhibition purposes, the display of fruit being exceptionally fine 
and many prizes being awarded. This meeting, and especially the 
exhibition, attracted many visitors, who were admitted to the part of 
the building occupied both day and evening. 
At the Twelfth International Congress of Geology, held at To- 
ronto, Canada, August 7 to 10, 1913, the Institution and Museum were 
represented by Secretary Charles D. Walcott and Dr. George P. 
Merrill. 
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS. 
The competitive designs for the Lincoln Memorial by Mr. Henry 
Bacon and Mr. John Russell Pope, the Red Cross collection, the 
relief map of the Gatun dam and locks, and model of the Pedro 
Miguel locks, mentioned in the last report, remained on exhibition 
in the foyer of the new building and communicating rooms through- 
out the year. 
The plans submitted in competition for the George Washington 
memorial building, received on May 2, 1914, were, after inspection by 
the jury of awards, installed on screens in one of the foyer rooms and 
opened to public view on May 9. There were also two loan exhibi- 
tions of paintings, which are fully described in connection with the 
National Gallery of Art. One, consisting of 25 portraits by members 
of the National Association of Portrait Painters, continued from 
