114 EEPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



A coUection of 100 Japanese paintings of the Ukiyo-ye school, 

 belonging to Mr. Yojiro Kuwabara, which had been shown at the 

 Japan-British Exhibition in London in 1910 and subsequently in 

 other Eui-opean cities, were placed on view from September 21 to 

 November 4, 1912, and attracted much attention. A number of 

 articles belonging to the Red Cross Society, mainly illustrative of 

 the methods and work of foreign branches, and intended to form 

 part of an exhibition by the Society when it shall have obtained a 

 suitable home in Washington, were turned over temporarily to the 

 custody of the Museum, and opened up to the public on December 14. 



The models of the Panama Canal were installed in the foyer on the 

 ground floor of the new building, and the other exhibits in three of 

 the rooms which open into it. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



The active organization of the division of mineral technology was 

 taken up on June 6, 1913, by the appointment as curator on that 

 date of Mr. Chester G. Gilbert, who had for some time previously 

 been the assistant curator of systematic and applied geology. Fol- 

 lowing the transfer of the collection of grasses from the Department 

 of Agriculture, Prof. Albert S. Hitchcock, systematic agrostologist 

 in that Department, was made honorary custodian of grasses in the 

 Museum on October 10, 1912, and was provided with laboratory 

 accommodations in the division of plants in order to faciUtate his 

 work and his supervision of the entire grass collection. A section of 

 diatoms in the division of plants was fii'st definitely recognized dur- 

 ing the year and was placed in charge of Dr. Albert Mann, of the 

 Bm'eau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, who was des- 

 ignated honorary custodian on January 8, 1913. The Museum col- 

 lection of these microscopic forms, to which Dr. Mann has given 

 much attention, has recently, through his active interest, been raised 

 to a standard of completeness not elsewhere excelled in this coxmtry. 



Two members of the staff, Mr. L. D. Burling, assistant curator of 

 paleontology, and Dr. J. E. Pogue, assistant curator of mineralogy 

 and petrology, resigned during the year, the former on March 4 to 

 enter the service of the Geological Sm"vey of Canada, the latter on 

 May 17, 1913, to join the U. S. Geological Sm-vey. Mr. R. P. Tolman 

 was appointed aid in the division of grapliic arts on May 21, 1913, 

 after a temporary service beginning on August 23, 1912, to fill the 

 position left vacant by the resignation of Mr. E. W. Huckel on 

 July 31, 1912. 



Two naturalists, not connected with the Government service, 

 were designated as honorary collaborators for one jenr each, namely, 

 Mr. Samuel Mixter, of Boston, Mass., from April 1, and Prof. Albert 

 M. Reese, of the University of West Virginia, from May 1, 1913. 



