THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 145 



of the states. A vigorous publicity campaign was conducted, 

 with a favorable response from the newspapers of the country. A 

 considerable amount of printed matter, consisting of posters, 

 circulars, booklets, and similar material, was distributed. The 

 aims of the Congress were presented by word of mouth to all of 

 the leading medical and health organizations at that time in 

 existence. In foreign countries similar committees were organized 

 and similar propaganda was conducted. 



In preparation for the Congress itself an elaborate exhibit 

 representing tuberculosis work throughout the world was pre- 

 pared. No similar exhibit has ever been gathered together either 

 in this country or elsewhere. The greater part of the main floor 

 of the large National Museum Building was given over to the 

 purpose. Arrangements for the exhibit itself were perfected by 

 the late Dr. Henry G. Beyer, U.S.N., who served as director of the 

 exhibit. Much of the detail work in arranging and managing the 

 exhibit was carried on by E. G. Routzahn, at that time director of 

 the traveling exhibit of the National Association and at the 

 present time associate director of the Department of Surveys and 

 Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation. A complete description 

 of all of the exhibits, with a list of winners of prizes, will be found 

 in Volume V of the Transactions of the Sixth International Con- 

 gress. As a matter of historical record, however, it will be sig- 

 nificant to mention in this place that, after the close of the Inter- 

 national Congress, most of the exhibit was shipped intact to New 

 York and set up in the American Museum of Natural History, 

 where for a month hundreds of thousands of people viewed it. 

 Following the exhibit in New York, it was also shown in Philadel- 

 phia. 



Regarding the Congress itself, the eight volumes of Transac- 

 tions, authorized by the general committee and prepared jointly 

 by the Committee on Printing and Publication, the Editorial and 

 the Executive Committees, give such voluminous details that 

 only a comparatively brief mention need be made in this place. 



The Congress opened in the Assembly Hall of the new National 



Museum on the morning of September 28. The Secretary of the 



Treasury, the Honorable George Bruce Cortelyou, called the 



meeting to order and formally announced the names of the hon- 



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