Activities of the Society October 14th with Mrt Harold F. Nutzhorn at the console, will continue regularly throughout the season. Guest Organizations Several organizations used the auditorium or other rooms of the Society for lectures, meetings, or exhibitions. On October 18th the American Association of University Women attended a lecture in the auditorium on old New York prints by Mr. Harry Shaw Newman, one of our members. The Annual Convention of the National Audubon Society, held in the auditorium on October 22d and 23d, included a series of lectures and discussions on D. D. T. A selection of our Audubon water colors was hung in the entrance corridor for the benefit of those attending. October 31st, Miss Barck, Mr. Carlson, Miss Ezequelle, and other members of the Library staff were hosts to the recently-organized Geography and Map Group of the New York Chapter, Special Libraries Association, in the Map and Print Room at a forum on the new publication of the U. S. State Department, Division of Geography and Cartography— The Classification and Cataloguing of Maps and Atlases, by Boggs and Lewis. Halloween refreshments were served by the maintenance staff. During November, the School Art League scheduled three Saturday lectures—on the 3d, the 10th, and the 17th—for technical and vocational rlgh-school students, on industrial design. On November 9th the Daughters of the American Colonists met in the Society's Board Room and were afterwards conducted on a tour of the museum and galleries by Mr. Shelley, our curator of paintings and sculpture. And on November 26th a meeting of the Society of American Historians was held in the auditorium. The most important event conducted by a guest organization, however, was the thirty-second annual exhibition of the Allied Artists of America, from October 28th to November 25th, in Dexter Hall, the adjoining South Gallery, and the Library Corridor. The Artists offered a number of special features in connection with the Exhibition: On Sunday, November 4th, Mr. DeWitt M. Lockman, president of the Allied Artists, gave a remarkable public demonstration of facility in portrait painting—his subject being the Allied Artists' vice-president, Howard B. Spencer. On Armistice Day the Artists provided a lecture by Leon Dabo, in the auditorium, and a week later, November 18th, Gordon Grant publicly demonstrated his skill as a marine painter. At the Artists' Annual Meeting, Saturday, November 24th, among the many prizes awarded, the Anonymous Prize of $250 went to Roy Brown 57