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March 21 until April 21. The other, comprising 55 marine paintings 

 by Mr. William F. Halsall, was held from April 23 mitil June 15. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



It has been found advisable to change the designations of the two 

 divisions of archeology, which has involved the shifting of responsi- 

 bility for the custody of certain classes of material but no modifica- 

 tion in the staff connected with them. The titles hitherto recognized 

 have been " Prehistoric archeology " and " Historic archeology." In 

 the division bearing the former name were included all antiquities, 

 however modern, from America, while in the other were placed only 

 so-called historic antiquities from other parts of the world. Under 

 the present arrangement, which, though partly put in operation 

 some time ago, was not officially recognized until last year, the divi- 

 sions are termed "American archeology " and " Old World arche- 

 ology," respectively, the classification assumed being, therefore, 

 broadly geographical and without reference to the age of the antiqui- 

 ties. This classification is, moreover, more philosophical than the 

 other, as the prehistoric collections of the two worlds do not touch 

 at any point, and the historic phase of Old World archeology con- 

 nects without break with the prehistoric. Mr. William H. Holmes, 

 head curator of the department of anthropology, will continue the 

 supervision of the division of American archeology, while Dr. I. M. 

 Casanowicz, assistant curator, will be in charge of the division of 

 Old World archeology. Mr. Neil M. Judd, aid in the division of 

 ethnology, was on leave without pay from January 1 to April 30, 

 1914, to enable him to engage in field work for the Panama-Califor- 

 nia Exposition. Mr. Joseph B. Leavy was appointed philatelist in 

 the division of history on November 5, 1913. Mr. Thomas W. 

 Sweeny, who had been a preparator in the division of ethnology for 

 many years and had taken an important part in the installation of 

 the exhibition collections in the new building, died on April 4, 1914. 



On his appointment as director of the museum of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, Dr. Barton W. Evermann resigned the cura- 

 torship of the division of fishes, dating from March 31, 1914. 

 Mr. Alfred C. Weed, aid in the same division, was granted a year's 

 furlough from July 15, 1913, and on January 2, 1914, Dr. John O. 

 Snyder, of Leland Stanford Junior University, began upon the 

 revision of the extensive collection of fishes, as explained elsewhere. 

 Mr. H. K. Harring, of the Bureau of Standards, was designated 

 honorary custodian of the Rotatoria in the division of marine inver- 

 tebrates on May 1, 1914, and Dr. Nathan Banks resigned his custo- 

 dianship of the Arachnida in the division of insects on October 22, 

 1913. Mr. Copley Amory, jr., of Boston, Mass., was appointed hon- 

 orary collaborator in zoology for two years, beginning June 1, 1914. 



