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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



A statement of the meetings held is here given : 



The Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations : No- 

 vember 12 to 15 inclusive. Night sessions were also held on November 13 and 14. 



The American Historical Association : December 26 to 31, inclusive. 



The American Institute of Mining Engineers : Evening of February 18. 



Memorial Meeting of the Academy of Sciences : March 27. 



The Geological Society of America : April 17. 



The National Academy of Sciences : April 15, 16, 17, and 18. 



The National Geographic Society : Evening of May 2. The Museum lantern was 

 used on this occasion. 



Permission was granted verbally to Prof. J. J. Newberry, of the 

 School of Mines, Columbia College, New York, for the meeting of the 

 Committee on Arrangements of the Geological Congress, on April 18. 



Permission was granted to the National Geographic Society, through 

 its vice president, Everett Hayden, to use the lecture hall of the Mu- 

 seum for an illustrated lecture by Ensign J. B. Bernadou, U. S. Navy, 

 on the evening of April 11. 



The course of Saturday lectures for 1890 consisted of two series, the 

 programme of each being as follows : 



FIRST SERIES. 



February 1. — Prof. John M. Coulter: The Physical Basis of Life. 



February 8. — Prof. W. O. Atwater : Food and Health. 



February 15. — Prof. Henry C. Adams: An Interpretation of the Social Movement 

 of Our Times. 



February 22. — Capt. C. E. Dutton : The Future of the Far West. 



February 27.— Prof. H. Carrington Bolton : Four Weeks in the Wilderness of 

 Sinai. 



SECOND SERIES. 



March 8. — Prof. C. R. Van Hise : Deposits of Iron Ore in Northwestern States. 

 March 13. — Hon. W. T. Harris : A Study of Two Pictures of Raphael and One of 

 Holbein. 

 March 20. — Dr. Tarleton H. Bean- The Salmon of Alaska. 

 March 29. — Prof. T. C. Mendenhall : Chance and the Long Run. 

 April 3. — Mr. Edward Burgess : Yachts and Yachting. 



This course was delivered under the direction of the Joint Committee 

 of the scientific societies of Washington. 



Table showing the number and dates of Saturday lectures since 1882. 



Year. 



Date of first and last lecture. 



No. of 



lectures. 



882 



March 11, April 29 



8 



883 





12 



884. 





17 



885 





12 



886 



March 6, May 8 



10 



887 





12 



888 • 





12 



889 





10 



890 





10 



Total 





103 







