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Doctor Haupt, Dr. C. R. Lanman, of Harvard University, Prof. 

 Morris Jastrow, jr., of the University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. 

 A. V. W. Jackson, of Columbia University, were designated by the 

 Department of State as delegates of the United States Government, 

 to this congress. 



Congress of Americanists. — Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, was representative of the Institution at the Sixteenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Americanists, held at Vienna September 8 to 

 14, 1908, and the Department of State, at the suggestion of the Insti- 

 tution, designated, besides Doctor Boas, the following delegates on 

 the part of the United States Government : Prof. Marshall H. Saville, 

 of Columbia; Dr. George Grant McCurdy, of Yale; Dr. Charles 

 Peabody, of Harvard; and Dr. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins. 



Fisheries Congress. — The International Fisheries Congress was held 

 in Washington September 22 to 26, 1908, delegates being present from 

 a large number of countries and from various societies and clubs 

 interested in fisheries. The Institution was represented by Dr. T. N. 

 Gill and Dr. F. W. True; the National Museum by Mr. W. de C. 

 Ravenel and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger. Dr. Richard Rathbun, Assist- 

 ant Secretary of the Institution, served as delegate at large from the 

 Government. In connection with this congress the Smithsonian 

 Institution had offered a prize of $200 for the best essay or treatise 

 " On international regulation of the fisheries on the high seas : Their 

 history, objects, and results." This prize was awarded to Mr. Charles 

 H. Stevenson, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



Tuberculosis Congress. — In compliance with the direction of the 

 President, the new building for the National Museum was selected 

 for the meetings of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, 

 $40,000 being placed at the disposal of the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution for the necessary arrangements in this connection. 



The plans for the adaptation of the building to this purpose were 

 put in the hands of the superintendent of construction, Mr. Bernard 

 R. Green, and the work necessary was conducted by him to a success- 

 ful conclusion. About 100,000 square feet of the building on the first 

 and second floors, exclusive of the south wings, were used for the 

 purposes of the congress. In order to make the space as attractive 

 as possible, muslin was used to cover the rough places and many flags 

 of the United States and of foreign nations were gracefully festooned 

 about the halls. The Institution is indebted to the War, Navy, and 

 Treasury departments, and also to the Bureau of American Republics, 

 for the use of the flags. The temporary arrangements for the illumi- 

 nation of the building required 600 lamps of 80 candlepower each, 

 consuming about 40,000 feet of Aviring. 



The congress opened on September 21, 1908, and adjourned on 

 October 12. By November 3 all traces of the convention had been 



