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Bourn, William H. Crocker and William Kennon Jewett) were 

 appointed by the Museum, and the appointment was officially 

 confirmed by Mr. Marcus M. Marks, President of the Borough 

 of Manhattan, to act as delegates on Manhattan Day, at the 

 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, August 9, and at 

 the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, August 19. 



At the Second Pan-American Scientific Congress held in 

 Washington, D. C, in December, the American Museum was 

 represented by Dr. Frank M. Chapman and Dr. Herbert J. 

 Spinden. 



Miss Mary Cynthia Dickerson attended the celebration, in 

 October, of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Vassar 

 College, as the delegate of the Museum. 



Dr. Clark Wissler and Dr. Robert H. Lowie were delegates 

 from the Museum and from the New York Academy of Sciences 

 to the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists, 

 which met in Washington at the end of December. 



At the recent session of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Dr. Pliny E. Goddard was reelected 

 President of the American Folk-Lore Society and was elected 

 editor of the American Anthropologist, the foremost anthropo- 

 logical publication in America ; Dr. Robert H. Lowie, who per- 

 formed the duties of Acting Secretary in the absence of Pro- 

 fessor George Grant MacCurdy, was reelected associate editor 

 of the American Anthropologist, and Mr. Alanson Skinner was 

 elected assistant secretary of the American Folk-Lore Society. 



Mr. John T. Nichols was the representative of the Museum 

 at the meetings of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, held in Columbus, Ohio, in the latter part of 

 December. 



Professor C.-E. A. Winslow has taken up his new work as 

 Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health at the Yale 

 Medical School, New Haven, but will continue as Curator of 

 Public Health at the Museum. Professor Winslow has con- 

 tinued as Chairman of the New York State Commission on 

 Ventilation. He has also served as Chairman of the Laboratory 

 Section of the American Public Health Association and the 

 Secretary of Section K of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



