44 ANNUAL KEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19U. 



the section of the library relating to the arts and industries, which 

 occupies the former library quarters in the older Museum building. 



The auditorium and other rooms in the new building were fre- 

 ([uently used for meetings and public gatherings having objects 

 akin to those of the Institution, and also by several bureaus of the 

 (fovernment for official purposes. The regular meetings of the 

 Washington Society of the Fine Arts and the Anthropological So- 

 ciety of Washington w ere held here, as were the public sessions of the 

 annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences and the meet- 

 ings of the Spanish-American Atheneum and the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union. Lectures were delivered under the auspices of the 

 ^^'ashington Academy of Sciences, the Medical Society of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, the Washington Society of Engineers, the George 

 AVashington University, the Washington Society of the Archaeo- 

 logical Institute of America, the Germanistic Society of Washington, 

 the Columbia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 

 the District of Columbia Chapter of the Guild of American Organ- 

 ists and other musical societies, and the Home Club of the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior. A special program of American music was 

 also rendered by the Friday Morning Music Club. Of three con- 

 gresses, one held in Chicago, the others in Washington, each had a 

 special meeting in the auditorium for addresses by distinguished 

 persons. These were the Third International Congress of Refrigera- 

 tion, the fourth annual meeting of the American Association for 

 Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, and the Third Interna- 

 tional Congress on the Welfare of the Child. On April 18, 1914, a 

 reception to the Daughters of the American Revolution was given 

 by the Secretary of the Institution. 



The accommodations afforded by the new building Mere utilized on 

 numerous occasions by bureaus of the Department of Agriculture 

 for meetings, conferences, and hearings, including a series of lectures 

 under the Bureau of Plant Industry and a conference with the wool- 

 growers, accompanied by an excellent exhibition of wool specimens, 

 which has been deposited in the Museum. A meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society in conjunction wdth the Eastern Fruit 

 Growers Association, the Northern Nut Growers Association, and 

 the Society for Horticultural Science, held in November, 1913, 

 brought together in the foyer of the building one of the finest exhi- 

 bitions of fruit that has ever been displayed in this country. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Richard Rathbun, 



Assistant Secretary in Charge U. /S. National Museum. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



October 6, 1914. 



