40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1922. 



Smithsonian Auxiliary of the District of Cokimbia Chapter of the 

 American Red Cross; and the Smiths<mian Relief Association. 



The Museum was the scene of several receptions, the first bein^ 

 probably the largest, the most elaborate, and the most successful 

 affair of its kind ever held in the ^Museum. This was the reception 

 on November 23, 1921, by the city of Washington, through the Com- 

 missioners of the District of Columl)ia and a committee of citizens, 

 to the delegates to the International Conference for the Limitation 

 of Armament, v^hen some 5,000 persons representing the official, 

 social, and business life of Washington sliowed respect to the dele- 

 gates to that conference. 



On the evening of February 18, 1922, an informal reception and 

 private view of the collection of Chihuahua pottery, loaned to the 

 Museum by the Archaeological Society of Washington Avas held in 

 the public exhibition halls on the first floor. This Avas preceded by 

 a lecture in the hall below by Dr. Hamilton Bell, on the Sculpture 

 of Japan, under the auspices of the Archaeological Society. 



Another reception, on April 24, formed part of the program of the 

 annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. This was in 

 honor of Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Lorentz, of Leiden, and followed a 

 lecture in the auditorium by Doctor Lorentz on Problems of Modern 

 Physics. 



A function which brought to the Museum representatives of the 

 diplomatic corps and others was the formal presentation to the 

 American Nation, on March 1, of the Herbert Ward collection of 

 sculptures and African ethnology. In the northeast corner, first 

 story, of the Natural History Building, surrounded by the works of 

 her gifted husband and his unrivaled collection illustrating the 

 handicrafts of the native African, the presentation was made by 

 Mrs. Ward, and the donation accepted by Vice President Coolidge 

 as chancellor of the Institution. 



^MISCELLANEOUS. 



The publications issued liy the Museum comprised 9 volumes and 

 78 separate papers. The Museum distribution of volumes and sepa- 

 rates to libraries and individuals aggregated 97,806 copies. This, 

 however, by no means indicates the number of its publications put in 

 circulation during the year, for one of the separates of the Proceed- 

 ings, on the Mosquitoes of the United States, issued in June, proved 

 so popular that the War and Navy Departments arranged through 

 the Superintendent of Documents for liberal distributions of the 

 paper, and the Bureau of Public Health reprinted it. 



The library received 2,023 volumes and 4,185 pamphlets, mainly 

 through gifts and exchanges, bringing the Museum collection up to 



