40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



Technology building was signed on March 16, 1956. A program of 

 the requirements for the building based on many years of study by the 

 Smithsonian staff was presented to the architects, and the work of de- 

 signing a building that will effectively serve the Museum and the 

 public is progressing well. Schedules of work anticipate that working 

 drawings will be sufficiently advanced to permit bids to be asked for 

 the construction of the building in the spring of 1957. Legislation 

 appropriating $33,712,000 for the construction of the building passed 

 both the House and the Senate in the second session of the 84th Con- 

 gress. This legislation (Public Law 573) was signed by the President 

 on June 13, 1956. The total amount appropriated for this building is 

 $36,000,000. 



The Secretary designated Frank A. Taylor, Assistant Director of 

 the United States National Museum, staff liaison with the architects. 

 The Planning Office was established to develop plans and requirements 

 for the building and its exhibits. John C. Ewers, associate curator in 

 the division of ethnology, was promoted to planning officer, and J. H. 

 Morrissey, architect of the Public Buildings Service, was assigned to 

 the Smithsonian by the General Services Administration to assist in 

 the planning. 



CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 



Frank A. Taylor, previously head curator of the department of en- 

 gineering and industries, was promoted to Assistant Director of the 

 Museum on August 7, 1955. 



Charles E. Cutress, Jr., a coelenterate specialist, was appointed asso- 

 ciate curator in the division of marine invertebrates, effective January 

 3, 1956. 



The department of history lost through death on February 20, 1956, 

 the valuable services of Stuart M. Mosher, associate curator of numis- 

 matics. 



John C. Ewers, associate curator of the division of ethnology, was 

 transferred to the office of the assistant director to serve as planning 

 officer for the Museum of History and Technology, effective February 

 26, 1956. 



G. Carroll Lindsay was appointed assistant curator, division of 

 ethnology, effective February 20, 1956. 



During January and February 1956, a reorganization of the exhibits 

 staff was effected with the promotion of John E. Anglim to chief ex- 

 hibits specialist, R. O. Hower and Benjamin Lawless to exhibits spe- 

 cialists, and William L. Brown to chief zoological exhibits specialist. 



Dr. William F. Foshag, head curator of the department of geology 

 since August 1948, and a member of the staff of that department from 

 June 1919, died May 21, 1956, of a heart attack at his home in West- 



