28 BEPOBT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1924 



of the Chicago Historical Society; greetings at the American Red 

 Cross headquarters, James L. Fieser ; the function of the photograph 

 collection for the smaller art museum, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Whitmore, 

 of Northhampton, Mass. ; modern tendencies in Europeon industrial 

 art, Prof. Charles R. Richards; the two approaches in art museum 

 instruction, George William Eggers, director of the Denver Art 

 Association ; greetings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hon. Henry 

 White ; national park museums and National Museum parks, Stephen 

 T. Mather, Director of the National Park Service ; the place of mu- 

 seum education in a total scheme of educational objectives, Dr. David 

 Snedden, professor of education at Teachers College, New York City ; 

 the museum exhibits problem, JDr. Clark Wissler, curator of anthro- 

 pology at the American Museum of Natural History ; the museum in 

 university instruction, Dr. Frank C. Baker, director of the University 

 of Illinois Museum ; and hunting big game in the rocks — the story of 

 the great dinosaurs — illustrated by motion pictures, Arthur Cogges- 

 hall, curator of education at the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. The 

 speakers at the dinner included His Excellency Jules J. Jusserand, 

 ambassador from the French Republic ; Hon. John J. Tigert, United 

 States Commissioner of Education ; Dr. John C. Merriam, president 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington ; and Dr. Vernon L. Kel- 

 logg, permanent secretary of the National Research Council. The 

 National Museum was officially represented at this convention by 

 William deC. Ravenel, F. L. Lewton, and Austin Hobart Clark. 



The spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in Wash- 

 ington from April 21 to 25 was the occasion of an informal recep- 

 tion at the Museum to the members of that society and their guests 

 on the evening of April 22. The exhibition halls on the ground and 

 first floor of the Natural History Building were thrown open for 

 inspection from 8.30 to 11 p. m. The delegates were entertained 

 during the evening by music by the United States Marine Band and 

 by motion pictures in the auditorium showing the trip of the Geo- 

 logical Survey engineers through the Grand Canyon in the summer of 

 1923. The films were run through the machine twice owing to the large 

 attendance. In fact, this was the best attended event of the year. 



On the evening of November 13 the Medical Society of the District 

 of Columbia was sponsor for a reception to the members and friends 

 of the Southern Medical Association, during its seventeenth annual 

 meeting convening in Washington from November 12 to 15. Oppor- 

 tunity was afforded the delegates to view all the exhibits in the Na- 

 tural History Building. In the receiving line, formed in the central 

 National Gallery room, were Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and Mrs. Walcott ; Dr. W. S. Leathers, 

 president of the Southern Medical Association, and Mrs. Leathers; 

 the chairman and vice chairman of the local committee; and the 

 president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. 



