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30, of whom 24 are in the pay of the Museum, aud the others are hon- 

 orary, r> being detailed for this duty by the director of the Geological 

 Survey, 1 by the director of the Bureau of Ethnology, others by the 

 Coin mission of Fisheries, and by the Secretary of the ^avy, two being 

 volunteers. It maybe stated here that these details are in every instance 

 made in the interests of co-operation by those bureaus of the Govern- 

 ment engaged in work closely connected with that of the Museum, The 

 paleontologists of the Geological Survey find it so much tO' their advan- 

 tage to have access to the paleontological collections of the Museum, 

 and the use of the laboratories, storage cases, and general administra- 

 tive machinery of the Museum, that they are permitted by their chief 

 to assume the responsibilities of curatorships and perform a general 

 work of supervision. In the same way it is with the mineralogist and 

 the ethnologist detailed. In nearly every case, however, the Museum 

 supplies the honorary curators with assistants, who relieve them of much 

 of the routine work. The curatorships are now organized as follows: 



I. Arts and Industries. — The Assistant Director acting as curator, 

 j^ith sub-curatorships as follows: A. Howard Clark, assistant; two pre- 

 parators. 



a. Materia medica: Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. N., honorary curator, with 

 one clerk. 



6. Textile industries : Komyn Hitchcock, acting curator. 



c. Fisheries: E. Edward Earll, curator. 



d. Animal products: E. Edward Earll, acting ^curator. 



e. Kaval architecture : Capt. J. W. Collins, United States Fish Com- 

 mission, honorary curator. 



f. Foods : W. O. Atwater, acting curator. 



In this department, it may be stated, is administered very much of 

 the material usually arranged by museums in their ethnological series, 

 and the curator of ethnology is consequently acting as adjunct curator 

 in arts and industries. 



II. Ethnology. — Dr. Otis T. Mason, curator, with one preparator and 

 two clerks. 



III. Antiquities. — Dr. Charles Eau, curator; E. P. Upham, assistant. 



IV. American Prehistoric Pottery. — W. H. Holmes, Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, honorary curator; Dr. Edward Foreman, assistant; one prepar- 

 ator. 



V. Mammals. — Frederick W. True, curator ; one clerk ; two prepar- 

 ators. 



VI. Birds. — Eobert Eidgway, curator; Dr. Leonard Stejneger, assist- 

 ant ; one clerk and one preparator. 



VII. Birds'' Eggs. — Capt. Charles Bendire, U. S. A., honorary cura- 

 tor (volunteer), and one clerk. 



VIII. Eeptiles and BatracMans. — Dr. H. C. Yarrow, honorary cura- 

 tor (volunteer). 



