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medical director of the Life Extension Institute, " Extending the 

 health span and the working span of life " ; March 9, Dr. Shepherd 

 1. Franz, director of the laboratory at St. Elizabeths Hospital, 

 Washington, D. G, "Restoration of the disabled," illustrated; 

 March 23, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, "Do you want to live longer"; 

 April 6, Dr. James R. Peake, United States Public Health Service, 

 " How to protect the community against diphtheria infection " ; and 

 April 27, Dr. Clinton T. Messner, chief dental surgeon of United 

 States Public Health Service, " Teeth and health." 



Several local scientific societies utilized the council room 42-43 

 as heretofore for their regular meetings of the season, including the 

 Anthropological Society of Washington, the Entomological Society 

 of Washington, and the American Horticultural Society. 



The Washington (D. C.) Chapter of the Wild Flower Preserva- 

 tion Society of America held five evening meetings in the Museum, 

 all illustrated by lantern slides — the first and last in the auditorium 

 and the others in the smaller hall, with speakers and topics as fol- 

 lows : January 31, 1924, Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, " Flowers of the 

 Canadian Rockies"; February 28, Dr. E. T. Wherry, "Wild flowers 

 of the Southern States"; .March 27, H. W. Gleason, "Views and 

 flowers of Plymouth " ; April 17, Dr. Paul Bartsch, " Bahama Is- 

 lands " ; and May 8, P. L. Ricker, " Preservation of the dogwood." 



The Audubon Society of the District of Columbia used the audi- 

 torium on two evenings — on January 23 for the annual meeting, with 

 an address on birds by Dr. Alexander Wetmore, illustrated by motion 

 pictures from the United States Biological Survey ; and on March 13, 

 when Dr. John B. May lectured on " Our birds — North and South." 



The Washington Society of Engineers had a meeting in the 

 auditorium on the evening of January 2, 1924, addressed both by 

 Col. C. H. Birdseye, chief topographic engineer, and Herman 

 Stabler, chief of the land classification branch, both of the United 

 States Geological Survey. Colonel Birdseye was in charge of the 

 party that made the survey of the Colorado River through Marble 

 and Grand Canyons in the summer of 1923, and the lecture, illus- 

 trated by slides and motion pictures, covered that trip. Members 

 of the Geological Survey and of the local chapter of the American 

 Association of Engineers were specially invited to the meeting. 



The tercentenary (1623-1923) of the publication of the first folio 

 of Shakespearean plays was celebrated by the Shakespeare Society 

 of Washington in the auditorium on the evenings of November 7 

 and 8. The first evening was devoted to a program of music under the 

 direction of Dr. Paul Kaufman, assisted by Fulton Lewis, as follows : 



" Shakespeare's Lyrics," Doctor Kaufman ; " Under the Greenwood 

 Tree" (Thomas A. Arne), and "What Shall He Have That Killed 

 the Deer?" (Stafford Smith) (both from "As You Like It"), by 



