40 Report of the President 



Dr. Spinden is a Vice-President of the Maya Society, and 

 attended its December meeting at the University Museum in 

 Philadelphia. He also represented the Museum at the Eleventh 

 Annual Convention of the American Federation of Arts, at 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in May. 



Mr. Sullivan went to Honolulu in April and has made an- 

 thropometric studies on Hawaiian types, in connection with 

 the survey of Polynesia which is being conducted under the 

 direction of Dr. Herbert E. Gregory of the Bishop Museum. 



Mr. Chapin has been elected a Trustee of the Staten Island 

 Museum. 



Miss Ruth E. Crosby represented the Museum at the Annual 

 Meeting of the New York State Federation of Workers for 

 the Blind, October 15. 



In December, Mr. Coleman was appointed Chairman of a 

 Committee of the American Association of Museums to re- 

 port in Cleveland on a plan of classifying museum informa- 

 tion and providing for its distribution. 



HOSPITALITY TO SOCIETIES 



As for many years, the Museum has welcomed to its audi- 

 torium and meeting rooms, a number of educational and 

 scientific organizations, such as the New York Academy of 

 Sciences and Affiliated Societies, the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, the Board of Education of the 

 City of New York, the National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties, the National Research Council, and others. 



Among the Societies that have held meetings, exhibits or 

 lectures at the Museum during 1920, are the following: 



Aeronautical Society of America 



American Association for the Advancement of Science 



American Ethnological Society 



American Express Company (Travel Department) 



American Red Cross 



American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 



American Society for the Control of Cancer 



American Society of Mammalogists 



