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Depaetment of History : 



Mendel L. Peterson, acting head curator. 

 Divisions of Military History and Naval History: M. L. Peterson, curator; 

 J. R. Sirlouls, assistant curator ; Craddock K. Goins, Jr., junior historian. 

 Division of Civil History: Margaret W. Brown, associate curator ; Frank E. 



Klapthor, museum aide. 

 Division of Numismatics: S. M. Mosher, associate curator. 

 Division of Philately: Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., associate curator. 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Director. — Matthew W. Stirling. 



Associate Director. — Frank H. H. Roberts, Jb. 



Anthropologists. — H. B. Collins, Jr., Philip Dbucker. 



Collaborators. — Frances Densmore, John R. S wanton, A. J. Waring, Jr., R. J. 



Squiee, R. F. Heizer, Sister M. Inez Hilger, Ralph S. Solecki. 

 Research associate. — John P. Harrington. 

 Scientific illustrator. — E. G. Schumacher. 

 River Basin Surveys. — Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., Director. 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 



Director. — Loyal B, AiiDRicH. 

 Division of Astrophysical Research : 



Chief. — [ Vacancy. ] 



Astrophysicist. — Frederick A. Greeley. 



Instrument makers. — D. G. Talbbjit, J. H. Harrison. 



Research associate. — Charles G. Abbot. 



Table Mountain, Calif., field station. — Alfred G. Froiland, Stanley L. 

 Aldeich, physicists. 



Calama, Chile, field station. — James E. Zimmerman, physicist; John A. 

 PoRA, physical science aide. 

 Division of Radiation and Organisms : 



Chief. — R. B. Withrow. 



Plant physiologists. — William H. Klein, Leonard Price, V. B. Elstad, Mrs. 

 Alice P. Withrow, Chao C. Moh. 



Biochemist. — John B. Wolff. 



NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 



Director. — Thomas M. Beggs. 



Curator of ceramics. — P. V. Gardner. 



Chief, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. — Mrs. Annemarie H. Pope. 



Exhibits preparator. — Rowland Lyon. 



FREER GALLERY OF ART 



Director. — A. G. Wenley. 

 Assistant Director. — John A. Pope. 

 Assistant to the Director. — Burns A. Stubbs. 

 Associate in Near Eastern art. — Richard Ettinghausen. 

 Associate in technical research. — Rutherford J. Gettens. 

 Assistant in research. — ^Harold P. Stern. 

 Research associate. — Grace Dunham Guest. 

 Honorary research associate. — Max Loehr. 

 Consultant to the Director. — Katherine N. Rhoades. 



