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Glover, Third Assistant Postmaster General; E. D. Simmons, chief 

 inspector, Post Office Department; J. B. Mullan, postmaster of 

 Kochester, N. Y. ; A. L. Behymer, postmaster of Cincinnati, Ohio; 

 Arthur C. Lueder, postmaster of Chicago, 111., and others. 



The United National Association of Post Office Clerks likewise 

 used the auditorium for the opening session on September 3 of its 

 twenty-fourth annual convention, which was held in Washington from 

 September 3 to 7. The other sessions were transferred elsewhere. 



The nineteenth annual meeting of the American Association of 

 Museums 'from May 10 to 13, 1924, was of more than usual interest. 

 It marked the close of the association's first year of work on the new 

 basis and performed an important service in bringing the association 

 prominently before the public. The convention was inaugurated by 

 an illustrated lecture in the Museum auditorium on the evening of 

 May 10, by Charles Colfax Long, on " Washington — Our national 

 shrine." May 11 was devoted to an all-day boat trip on the Potomac 

 River, which gave the delegates from museums all over the country 

 an excellent opportunity to renew old friendships and make new con- 

 tacts. In the evening the delegates were informally entertained by 

 Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Bush-Brown in their studios. The program Mon- 

 day included morning and afternoon sessions in the Museum, with 

 luncheon at noon in the nearby Smithsonian Building as guests of 

 the Board of Regents of the Institution, and an evening session at 

 the American Red Cross national headquarters, closing with in- 

 spection of the Red Cross Museum. The last day of the convention 

 included a morning session in the hall of the Corcoran Gallery of 

 Art, an informal reception by President Coolidge at the White 

 House at noon, when President Coolidge was photographed with the 

 delegates; an afternoon session in the Museum, and the annual din- 

 ner that evening at the New Willard Hotel. 



The topics considered and the speakers at the technical sessions on 

 May 12 and 13 were as follows : 



Address of welcome, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution ; address, Chauncey J. Hamlin, president of 

 the association; report of the secretary, Laurence Vail Coleman; 

 report of the treasurer, Frederic A. Delano ; European survey, Prof. 

 Charles R. Richards, director of the association; lire hazards, 

 Edward R. Hardy ; finance and accounting, Alwin C. Ernst ; museum 

 ethics and membership campaign, Harold L. Madison; sectional 

 meetings, Miss Delia I. Griffin ; the place of the museum in the his- 

 torical society's program, Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, director of the 

 department of historical research of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington ; the field of the historical museum, Theodore T. Belote, 

 curator of history in the United States National Museum ; the func- 

 tions of the historical museum, Miss Caroline M. Mcllvaine, librarian 



