This fund sponsors an annual lecture, established in honor of Richard Hubbard Howland — archaeologist, architectural historian, and humanist— who had a long career at the Smithsonian Institution, during the course of which he held important positions in the Archaeological Institute of America, both at the national level and at the local level here in Washington, D.C. The annual Howland Lecture is one of the highlights of the Washington D.C. Society’s lecture program, and this fund enables us to bring outstanding speakers to address our members and friends on current developments in the field of classical archaeology.