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scientists, including many delegates from universities, academies 

 and scientific societies distributed all over the world. Pages lii- 

 cxxxiii of this report are devoted to an interesting series of 

 selected letters for the most part brought by individuals repre- 

 senting the institutions invited to attend. In addition, there is 

 given a brief summary of the proceedings, and the addresses of 

 the Mayor, the Hon. Rudolph Blankenburg, and of the President, 

 Hon. Samuel G. Dixon, are given in full. It is well known 

 that the remarkable development of the Academy in recent years, 

 and the vigor with which it begins its second century, are largely 

 due to the efforts of Mr. Dixon. 



Part II contains a series of twenty-two original memoirs illus- 

 trated by a large number of plates of admirable execution. It is 

 impossible to reproduce here the list of papers, but it is interest- 

 ing to note that the one first in order is by the late Dr. Thomas 

 H. Montgomery, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania, whose 

 early death on March 19, 1912, robbed biology of one of its most 

 prominent students. It should be added that the present volume 

 has been carried through by Dr. Edward J. Nolan, as editor. 



2. Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, for the year ending June SO, 1912. — 

 Pp. iii, 110, with two plates. Washington, 1912. — The Secre- 

 tary, in referring to the trust fund recently founded in connection 

 with the Smithsonian by Mrs. E. H. Harriman for carrying on 

 certain research work, expresses his desire to establish a number 

 of research associateships on a similar basis, allowing able men 

 to carry forward research work without the usual limitations. 

 Something of this kind has already been accomplished for a num- 

 ber of years by the Hodgkins fund. In connection with a gift of 

 a valuable set of patents by Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell, of the 

 IT. S. Bureau of Mines, it is stated that a Research Corporation 

 has been established under the laws of New York to acquire and 

 make available inventions and patents, using them also as a source 

 of income ; further, to apply all profits thus derived for the 

 advancement of scientific investigations through the agency of 

 the Smithsonian. It is noted that the completion of the new 

 National Museum has progressed so rapidly that with the begin- 

 ning of the fiscal year 1913, the building will be entirely equipped 

 and all the exhibition halls opened to the public. During the 

 past year the Museum has been open on Sundays, and on the first 

 day, October 8, 1911, nearly 15,500 visitors were present. The 

 Rainey and the Frick African expeditions have yielded important 

 results and added largely to the collections. Mention is also 

 made of various other expeditions and special works, among 

 which are to be particularly noted those in ethnology and further 

 the studies in Cambrian paleontology by Dr. Walcott during the 

 spring and summer of 1912 in British Columbia. Among other 

 points of interest in this report is the mention of the bill now 

 pending in Congress to erect, on Armory Square, a George 

 Washington memorial building at a cost of not less than $2,000,- 



