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from Assistant in Reptiles and Batrachians to Assistant Cu- 

 rator in the Department of Herpetology. 



On December 15, the Executive Committee granted leave 

 of absence to Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow, that he might take charge 

 of the Health Activities of the League of Red Cross Societies 

 in Geneva, Switzerland, for the year 1921. 



At the same meeting, the Executive Committee appointed 

 Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy Associate Curator of the De- 

 partment of Ornithology, to take effect January 1, 192 1. 



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President Osborn was appointed by Governor Smith a mem- 

 ber of the Roosevelt Memorial Commission of the State of 

 New York, and at the organization meeting held at the Mu- 

 seum on November 18, he was elected Chairman of the Com- 

 mission. Mr. George N. Pindar was elected Secretary. Presi- 

 dent Osborn has also been made President of the Second In- 

 ternational Congress of Eugenics, to be held in New York in 

 September, 192 1. He has been elected an Honorary Member 

 of the Societa Romana di Antropologia at a meeting held in 

 Rome; Vice-President of the Hispanic Society, and a member 

 of the Advisory Committee on the Homelands Exhibit to be 

 held in New York City in 1920 and 192 1. 



Director Lucas has been made a member of the Committee 

 to consider a memorial to Dr. Henry M. Leipziger, formerly 

 Supervisor of Lectures of the New York City Department of 

 Education. 



Dr. Clark Wissler, Dr. Hovey and Mr. Sullivan represented 

 the Museum at the First Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference 

 held in Honolulu in August. Dr. Wissler assisted Dr. Herbert 

 E. Gregory of the Bishop Museum in the preliminary organ- 

 ization of the program for the Congress and was elected per- 

 manent Chairman of the Section of Anthropology. He was 

 invited to assume an advisory relation to the Bishop Museum 

 and was made consulting ethnologist in that institution. He 

 then assumed his duties as Chairman of the Division of 



