50 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum, to be repre- 
sented at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, which will be held 
during the summer cf 1907. The buildings were provided for ina 
Separate grant of $350,000. 
ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 
There were few changes in the scientific staff during the year. Mr. 
EK. P. Upham, who has served for many years in the division of pre- 
historic archeology under the title of clerk, was advanced to the rank 
of aid. Dr. M. W. Lyon, jr., was promoted from the grade of aid to 
that of assistant curator in the division of mammals, while Mr. Gerrit 
S. Miller, jr., also assistant curator in the same division, was granted 
a year’s leave of absence to enable him to carry on certain investiga- 
tions abroad for the British Museum of Natural History. 
Dr. Paul Bartsch was promoted from aid to assistant curator in the 
division of mollusks. Mr. Le Roy Abrams was appointed assistant 
curator in the division of plants; Mr. A. N. Caudell, of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, custodian of orthoptera in the division of insects, 
and Mr. Lawrence La Forge, of the Geological Survey, aid in the 
division of physical and chemical geology. 
The following table gives the organization and staff at the close of 
the fiscal year: 
