REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 29 



to the Museum during the first half of 1885, and of the general adminis- 

 trative details of the work of the several executive ofBcers. 



Orf/anization of the Scientific Departments. — The organization of cura- 

 torships in the several scientific departments is as follows : I, arts and in- 



■ dustries, the assistant director, G. Brown Goode, acting as curator, di- 

 vided iuto the following sections : («) materia medica, H. G. Beyer, U. S. 

 N., honorary curatory (&) textile industries, Eomyn Hitchcock, acting 

 curator; (c) fisheries, R. Edward Earll, curator ; [d) animal products, R. 

 Edward Earll, acting curator; (e) naval architecture, J. W. Collins, 

 United States Fish Commission, honorary curator; (/) foods, W. C. At- 



• water, acting curator ; {g) historical relics, at present under the charge 

 of A. H. Clark. II, A, ethnology, Otis T. Mason, curator, and II, b, 

 American prehistoric pottery, William H. Holmes, Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, Smithsonian Institution, honorary curator. Ill, antiquities, 

 Charles Eau, curator. IV, mammals, Frederick W. True, curator. V, 



A, birds, Robert Ridgway, curator; and V, B, birds' eggs, Charles 

 Bendire, U. S. A., honorary curator. VI, reptiles and batrachians, 

 H. C. Yarrow, U. S. A., honorary curator. VII, fishes, Tarleton H. 

 Bean, curator. VIII, comparative anatomy, Frederick W. True, hon- 

 orary curator. IX, moUusks, William H. Dall, honorary curator ; X, 

 insects, C. V. Riley, honorary curator ; XI, marine invertebrates, Rich- 

 ard Rathbun, curator. XII, A, invertebrate fossils, (paleozoic,) C. 

 D. Walcott, United States Geological Survey, honorary curator; and 

 XI r, B, invertebrate fossils, (meso-cenozoic,) C. A. White, United States 

 Geological Survey, honorary curator. XIII, a, fossil plants, and XIII, 



B, recent plants, Lester F. Ward, United States Geological Survey, 

 honorary curator. XIV, minerals, F. W. Clarke, United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, honorary curator. XV, lithology and physical geol- 

 ogy, George P. Merrill, acting curator. XVI, metallurgy and econo- 

 mic geology, Fred. P. Dewey, curator. The departments of explora- 

 tion and field-work, chemistry, experimental physiology, and vivaria 

 are still unorganized. These twenty-seven departments and sections 

 are administered by twenty-four curators, honorary curators, and act- 

 ing curators, of which number at present only nine receive salaries 

 from the Museum appropriation. Of the remaining fifteen, five are of- 

 ficers connected with the Geological Survey; one, an officer of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology; two, officers of the Fish Commission ; two, oflicersin the 

 United States Army ; one, an officer in the United States Xavy ; one, 

 an officer in the Agricultural Department; and one, professor of chemis- 

 try in Wesleyan University ; the remaining two are Museum officers, 

 but receive no salaries for their work in administering upon the special 

 collections under their charge. 



Department of Arts and Indmtries. — In the department of arts and 

 industries several sections have already been organized ; that of M ateria 

 Medica, under the charge of Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. K., who has been de- 



