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tion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the exploration of the 

 Oregon country by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. 

 The bill authorizes a Government exhibit in this connection, and 

 appropriates $200,000 for its preparation, as well as $250,000 for a 

 building. 



INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES. 



At the Ninth International Geological Congress, held at Vienna. 

 Austria, from August 20 to 27, 1903, the Smithsonian Institution and 

 National Museum were represented by Mr. Charles Schuchert, assist- 

 ant curator of stratigraphic paleontology. The total attendance at this 

 congress from the United States was 22, papers being read by three 

 of the number, namely, Prof. C. R. Van Hise, of the University of 

 Wisconsin; Mr. Bailey Willis, of the U. S. Geological Survey, and 

 Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the American Museum of Natural History. 



Delegates appointed before the end of the fiscal year to congresses 

 to be held during the summer of 1901 were as follows: Dr. Leon- 

 hard Stejneger, curator of reptiles and batrachians, Mr. Gen-it S. 

 Miller, jr., assistant curator of mammals, and Dr. C. \V. Stiles, cus- 

 todian of the helminthological collections, to the Sixth International 

 Congress of Zoology, at Berne, Switzerland, during August; and Mr. 

 William H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, to 

 the Congress of Americanists at Stuttgart, during the same month. 

 These same persons were also designated by the Department of State 

 as official representatives of the United States. 



Dr. Paul Haupt, honorary curator of historic archeology, was 

 appointed, on April 30, 1904, to represent the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and National Museum at the Fourteenth International Congress 

 of Orientalists, to be held in Algiers in April, 1905. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



The classification • of the scientific departments of the Museum 

 remains as indicated in the report for last year, with the following 

 exceptions: The title of the "division of religions" lias been changed 

 to "division of historic religions," with Dr. Cyrus Adler as hon- 

 orary curator, and the former " section of historic religious cere- 

 monials" has been abolished. That of the " division of history and 

 biography" has been changed to "division of history," with Mr. A. 

 Howard Clark as honorary curator and Mr. Paul Beckwith as assist- 

 ant curator, the "section of American history" being omitted. The 

 "section of electricity " has been abolished, Mr. George C. Maynard, 

 who was in charge of that section, being the assistant curator of the 

 division of technology. 



