tive labels for the Manigault Osteological Collection and Mr. 

 F. M. Weston, Jr., is continuing the work on birds begun 

 by Mr. Fitzhugh Salley, who graduated in June. 



Special assistants have been employed from time to time. 

 Major P. P. Mazyck has prepared a series of bindings for 

 weather maps and Mr. Sass, who has been associated with 

 the Museum for several years, is engaged in the compilation 

 of the records of specimens. 



The honorary curators are the same as last year, with the 

 addition of Professor N. W. Stephenson, who has been elected 

 Honorary Curator of Art. Mr. Wayne, Honorary Cura- 

 tor of Birds, has given important assistance on technical ques- 

 tions in ornithology. Mr. W. G. Mazyck, Honorary Curator 

 of Recent Shells, cheerfully brings to the care of this depart- 

 ment the patience and skill necessary to restore order to long 

 neglected and badly confused collections. 



To Professor Daniel S. Martin the Museum is indebted 

 not only for a most skilful revision of the geological depart- 

 ment, of which he is the honorary curator, but for extensive 

 and valuable donations of books and specimens and for an en- 

 thusiastic interest which has already been the means of se- 

 curing for the Museum gifts from others and of increasing 

 the public knowledge of and interest in the Museum. Pro- 

 fessor Martin has been keenly interested in the movement 

 for the new building and will have charge of the transfer 

 and re-installation of the geological department. 



Records 



One of the most serious faults of the Museum in the past 

 has been the lack of proper records, for the value of scientific 

 specimens is almost entirely dependent upon the data accompa- 

 nying them. In my last report I emphasized the imperative 

 need of putting in proper form the scanty information avail- 

 able regarding the material now in the Museum and of adopt- 



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