38 Report of the President 



Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research Coun- 

 cil in Washington. 



Dr. Wissler was present on November 5 at the Conference 

 on Scientific Research in the Philippines and Other Tropical 

 Countries, in Washington, as representative of the Division 

 of Anthropology and Psychology of the National Research 

 Council. 



Doctors Wissler, Goddard, Lowie and Spinden attended the 

 convention of the American Anthropological Association held 

 in Philadelphia in December. 



Dr. Wissler has been elected a member of the Executive 

 Committee of the Institut International d' Anthropologic at a 

 meeting in Paris. He attended the annual meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science in 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Goddard has been appointed a lecturer on the Columbia 

 University Anthropological Staff. 



Dr. Hovey was present as Secretary of the Geological So- 

 ciety of America, at its Chicago meeting in December. He was 

 a representative of the Museum at the Fifteenth Annual Meet- 

 ing of the American Association of Museums, held in Wash- 

 ington in May. He also served as a Councilor of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Museums, as a member of the special 

 committee on classifying museum information, and as Asso- 

 ciate Editor of Museum Work, the official organ of the Asso- 

 ciation. He is also a Councilor of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Dr. Frank M. Chapman represented the Museum at a con- 

 ference on Research in Tropical America, held under the 

 auspices of the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the 

 National Research Council, in Washington, in June. Dr. 

 Chapman is a member of the Committee appointed to complete 

 the work of organization of an Institute for Tropical Ameri- 

 can Research and to provide for its incorporation. 



The Thirty-eighth Stated Meeting of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union was held in November at the United 

 States National Museum in Washington. The American Mu- 

 seum was represented by Dr. Chapman, Dr. D wight, Mr. 

 Miller, Mr. Chapin, Mr. Griscom, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Nichols, 



