40 Report of the President 



Dr. Herbert J. Spinden was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the Society of Americanists of Paris, at their 

 meeting of November 4, 1919. 



The American Museum was represented at the fourteenth 

 annual meeting of the American Association of Museums, held 

 in Philadelphia in May, by Dr. E. O. Hovey, Dr. Herbert J. 

 Spinden and Mr. Roy W. Miner. Dr. Spinden addressed the 

 session with reference to the utilization of museum material 

 in industrial art. 



The American Society of Mammalogists has been organized 

 in Washington. Among the councilors is Dr. W. D. Matthew. 



Mr. Carl E. Akeley is a member of the Roosevelt Permanent 

 National Committee, appointed for the purpose of choice and 

 erection of a national memorial to the late Theodore Roosevelt. 



The Aeronautical Society of America, at its meeting of Jan- 

 uary 9, elected Mr. Carl E. Akeley to life membership in recog- 

 nition of his important invention of a camera specially designed 

 for use in aeroplane work. 



At the annual meeting of the American Camp Directors 

 Association and the Woodcraft League of America, held at 

 Greenkill Camp near Kingston, New York, in May, bird study 

 was conducted by Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, representing the 

 Museum. Dr. Fisher has been made a member of the Coun- 

 cil of Guidance of the Woodcraft League. 



On December 20, the Museum was represented by Dr. 

 Henry E. Crampton at a conference at Albany to consider a 

 biological survey of the State. 



Dr. F. E. Lutz was the official representative of the Museum 

 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, held in St. Louis from December 29, 

 1919, to January 3, 1920. 



Dr. Clark Wissler has been elected Vice-Chairman of the 

 Section of Anthropology and Psychology of the National 

 Research Council. 



Dr. Pliny E. Goddard has been elected a Fellow of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



