STUDIES ON MITSETTMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 415 



would congratulate the city .should it become able to place this collec- 

 tion in a tireproof structure. 



When the museum was established the following seven departments 

 were provided: Anthropology, geology, botany, zoology (exclusive of 

 ornithology), ornithology, industrial arts, with two sections of trans- 

 portation and railroads, and Columbus memorials. In 1896 there was 

 added to this the department of monographic collections with the two 

 sections, that of printing and graphic arts and musical instruments. 

 In 1897, however, the departments were reduced to five: Anthropol- 

 ogy, botany, geology, zoology (exclusive of ornithology), and orni- 

 thology. Under anthropology is now embraced eveiything that was 

 formerly in anthropology, industrial arts, transportation, railroads, 

 Columbus memorials, printing and graphic arts, and musical instru- 

 ments. That there exists any essential reason for creating a depart- 

 ment of ornithology distinct from zoology is not apparent. The 

 anthropological department occupies the entire east win^ (1-18, eth- 

 nography; 81-94, America), the entire central pavilion (Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and America and statues in the rotunda), a portion of the west 

 wing (30-33 industrial arts), and the entire east portion (transporta- 

 tion). The botanical department occupies all the galleries (fig. 33); 

 the geological department the entire west pavilion and two halls of 

 the western wing (35-36); and the zoological, including the ornitho- 

 logical department, the greater portion, or two-thirds, of the west 

 wing (19-27, 95-108). The installation is mentioned somewhat more 

 in detail in the legend to fig. 32. 



The administrative organization is as follows: A board of 15 trus- 

 tees, 6 of whom constitute a quorum, is divided into four committees, 

 executive, finance, l)uilding, and audit. To this board are subject the 

 salaried officials of the museum, at whose head stands the director 

 who, up to this time, has not been a trained scientific man. Each 

 section has a curator. Besides this, the anthropological and zoolog- 

 ical sections have each an assistant curator, and the geological two 

 assistant curators. The assistant of the anthropological section has 

 special charge of ethnology. One of the geological assistants has 

 charge of paleontology. There are altogether nine professionally' 

 trained employees, a number entirely insufficient for this large niuseum. 

 Finally, there is a librarian, a recorder, and 79 subordinates, including 

 2 collectors, 1 osteologist, 3 taxidermists, 20 preparators, writers, ste- 

 nographers, etc., 2 modelers, 1 inspector of ))uildings, 4 engineers, 6 

 cabinetmakers, 4 painters, 12 doorkeepers, 5 laborers, 16 attendants, 

 and 3 tire guards. 



The force is emploj'ed from 8.30 a. m., in some cases from 7 or 8, 

 until 5 p. m. or till 5.30 p. m. in June, July, and August, with an 

 hour for luncheon. The hours of labor in American museums are 

 usually longer than in those of Europe. 



