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F. W. Clarke was designated to attend the congress as the representa- 

 tive of the Institution. The congress made the Secretary of the Insti- 

 tution one of its honorary vice presidents. 



Prehistoric anthropology. — Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Dr. Charles Pea- 

 body, and Dr. George Grant MacCurdy were designated to represent 

 the Smithsonian Institution and the United States at the Fourteenth 

 International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archeology 

 at Geneva, September 9 to 15, 1912. 



Hygiene and demography. — The Fifteenth International Congress 

 on Hygiene and Demography was held in Washington from Sep- 

 tember 23 to 28, 1912, under the auspices of the Government of the 

 United States, President William Howard Taft serving as honor- 

 ary president. Your secretary was a member of the local committee 

 on organization, and Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the National Museum, 

 served on the interdepartmental committee on exhibits. 



Archeological Congress. — The Third International Congress on 

 Archeology was held at Rome, October 9 to 16, 1912. Upon the 

 nomination of the Smithsonian Institution the Department of State 

 designated Prof. A. L. Frothingham, of Princeton, Prof. George M. 

 Whicher, secretary of the New York Society of the Archeological 

 Institute of Amer'ca, and Mr. William H. Buckler, president of the 

 Baltimore Society of the Archeological Institute of America, as dele- 

 gates on the part of the United States at that congress. 



Historical studies. — Prof. J. Franklin Jameson, of the American 

 Historical Association, was designated to act as the representative of 

 the Smithsonian Institution at the International Congress of His- 

 torical Studies held in London, April 3 to 8, 1913, under the auspices 

 of the British Academy in cooperation with British universities, 

 learned societies, and institutions. 



Geological Congress. — Your secretary, as a member of the Twelfth 

 International Congress of Geology, arranged to be at Toronto Au- 

 gust 7 to 14, 1913, and was appointed to represent the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington and the Washington Academy at that congress. 

 Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology in the National Mu- 

 seum, was appointed a representative of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Congress of Americanists. — Arrangements have been progressing 

 during the year in connection with the Nineteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, which has been invited to meet in Wash- 

 ington in 1914, and Mr. W. H. Holmes, Mr. F. W. Hodge, and Dr. 

 Ales Hrdlicka have been appointed an auxiliary committee to rep- 

 resent the Smithsonian Institution in connection with the prelimi- 

 nary details respecting the proposed meeting. 



The State education building at Albany was dedicated October 

 16, 1912, on which occasion the secretary presented the formal con- 



