46 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



was approved by the President of the United States on March 3, 1901. 

 The sundry civil bill for the year ending June 30, 1903, carried an 

 appropriation of $800,000 to enable the Executive Departments, and 

 also the Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus, the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, the Department of Labor, the Library of Congress, and the 

 Bureau of the American Republics, to prepare suitable exhibits for the 

 occasion. Out of this appropriation the sum of |110,000 was allotted 

 to the Smithsonian Institution. Congress also appropriated $450,000 

 for the construction of a building for the display of the Government 

 collections. 



Dr. Frederick W. True, Head Curator of Biology, has been desig- 

 nated by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to represent the 

 Institution and its bureaus on the Government board. The exposition 

 is expected to open on April 30 and to close on November 30, 1904. 

 The preparation of the exhibits under the Smithsonian Institution was 

 well under waj^ at the close of the year, and it is intended that the 

 display made shall surpass any previous efforts by this branch of the 

 Government. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



The organization of the Museum comprises an administrative office 

 and three scientific departments, as follows: Anthropology, with 9 

 divisions and 4 sections; Biology, with 9 divisions and 13 sections, 

 and Geology, with 3 divisions and 3 sections. This shows an increase 

 of one division in Anthropology and of one section in Biology, the 

 former relating* to physical anthropology, the latter to the lower alga?, 

 which have been separated from the higher alga?. At the close of the 

 year the scientific staff consisted of 3 head curators, 17 curators, 13 

 assistant curators, 15 custodians, 12 aids, 4 associates, and 2 collabo- 

 rators, a total of Qi) persons, only about one-half of whom were under 

 salary from the National Museum, the others, mainly employees of 

 other Government })ureaus, serving in a volunteer or honorary 

 capacity. 



Mr. W. H. Holmes, Head Curator of the Department of Anthro- 

 pology, having been appointed Chief of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, Prof. O. T. Mason, Curator of Ethnology, was on November 

 15, 1902, placed in charge of the Department as acting head curator. 

 Dr. A. Hrdlicka, whose researches on the physical characteristics of 

 man are widely known, was on May 1, 1903, designated as assistant 

 curator of the newly organized Division of Physical Anthropology. 

 Dr. G. T. Moore, of the Department of Agriculture, was appointed 

 custodian of the section of lower alg« on May 25, and at the same 

 time the designation of Mr. W. T. Swingle was changed to custodian 

 of the section of higher alga\ 



On December 31, 1902, Mr. Charles T. Simpson resigned his posi- 

 tion as principal aid in the Division of Mollusks, being succeeded by 



