16 REPOKT OF THE SECRETARY. 



which it is hoped to apply to a biennial lecture, but no arranovments 

 have yet been perfected for its delivery. 



Gifts. — Among- the gifts received by the Institution during- the year 

 may be mentioned a large oil painting, ''The March of Time,'" pre- 

 sented l)}^ the artist, Mr. Henry Sandhani, representing many of the 

 principal generals of the civil war. 



Louisiana Parehase Exposition. — Congress having made an appro- 

 priation for a (xovernment building and exhibit at the exposition to 

 be held in St. Louis in 1904, the Secretary has appointed Doctor True 

 to represent the Institution and its bureaus in the preparation and 

 installation of its exhibits. 



Congress of Ainericanists. — Mr. F. W. Hodge was delegated to 

 represent the Institution at the thirteenth session of the International 

 Congress of Americanists, held at New York, October 20-25, 1902. 

 The session was successful in every respect; many foreign govern- 

 ments and institutions of learning in Europe and throughout the 

 American Continent were represented, and the communications pre- 

 sented covered the entire field of aboriginal American history, anthro- 

 pology, ethnology, archasolog}^, and linguistics. 



C 'ongressof Orientalists. — Prof. Paul Haupt, LL. D., honorary cura- 

 tor of the division of historic archaeology in the United States National 

 Museum, attended the Thirteenth International Congress of Orientalists 

 as delegate of the Smithsonian Institution, This congress, which was 

 held at Hamburg, German}^, from September 1 to September 10, 1902, 

 was organized in eight sections: I, Indo-European Linguistics; 11% 

 India; \V\ Iran; III, Indo-China and Oceania; IV, Central Asia and 

 the Far East; V, Semitic; VI, Islam; VII% Egyptian; VII% African; 

 VIII, Relations between Orient and Occident (including Byzantine 

 studies). At first it was proposed to have a special colonial section, 

 but this idea was afterwards al)andoned owing to the fact that a special 

 colonial congress was held at Berlin in October, 1902. The Hamburg- 

 congress, which was attended b}" more than 600 mem])ers from all 

 parts of the globe, resolved to depart from the practice of printing the 

 transactions in full and to pul)lish onl}^ a volume of proceedings, includ- 

 ing abstracts of all the papers presented and the subsequest discus- 

 sions, to be issued within half a year after adjournment. This volume 

 has as yet not appeared. The next congress will be held at Algiers in 

 April, 1905. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



An important epoch in the history of the National Museum has 

 occurred during the past .year, when, by act of March 3, 1903, Con- 

 gress provided for the erection of an additional building, to cost not to 

 exceed $3,500,000. 



The present building- was completed in Ls.sl and was erected })ri- 



