34 Report of the President 



The meeting was held on February 28 at the Museum, in 

 cooperation with the delegates from the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, Section E of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, and the New York Mineralogical 

 Club. A paper written by the late Louis P. Gratacap for the 

 occasion was read. 



Dr. Robert H. Lowie represented the Museum at the Fif- 

 tieth Anniversary of the University of California, during the 

 week of March 23. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of America, 

 held in Baltimore in December, Dr. Frank E. Lutz was elected 

 a member of the Executive Committee. 



At the annual meeting of the American Anthropological 

 Association, held in Baltimore in December, Dr. Clark Wissler 

 was elected President of the Association and Dr. Pliny E. 

 Goddard was reelected Editor. 



At the fourth meeting of the American Society of Ichthyolo- 

 gists and Herpetologists, held at the Brooklyn Museum, on 

 November 15, Dr. Bashford Dean was elected a Vice-Presi- 

 dent and Mr. John T. Nichols Secretary. 



Dr. Hovey represented the Museum at the annual meeting 

 of the Geological Society of America, in St. Louis, December 

 27-29, 1917. 



Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow was appointed consulting expert on 

 industrial hygiene to the United States Public Health Service, 

 and was in charge of a squad of men studying conditions 

 affecting the health and efficiency of munition workers. 



Dr. Winslow served as a member of two of the subcom- 

 mittees of the Medical Advisory Board of the Council of 

 National Defense, in connection with nursing and child 

 hygiene. 



In June and July, Dr. Winslow was in charge of the courses 

 in bacteriology and hygiene at Vassar College Training Camp 

 for Nurses. In August he gave an intensive course in indus- 

 trial hygiene at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As 

 Chairman of a committee appointed by the Committee on 

 Higher Education and Special Training, he was in charge of 

 the work of preparing the official syllabus for instruction in 

 hygiene and sanitation to be offered to the enlisted men in the 



