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Henry, Mrs. Walter M. Johnson, Jr., Mrs. Vernon Knight, Mrs. Lansing Lament, 

 Mrs. Edward Leonard, Mrs. John Manfuso, Jr., Mrs. H. Roemer MePhee, Mrs. 

 R. Kendall Nottingham, Mrs. L. Edgar Prina, Mrs. W. James Sears. Mrs. Walter 

 Slowinslji, Mrs. Joseph Smith, Jr., Mrs. James H. Stallings, Jr., Mrs. Edwin F. 

 Stetson, Mrs. E. Tilman Stirling, Mrs. John S. Vorhees, Mrs. Richard Wallis, 

 and Mrs. Marlj White. 



Tlie Institution deeply appreciates the able and devoted efforts of 

 these volunteers, whose services to the schools of the Washington area 

 encourage effective use of Smithsonian museum exhibits by teachers 

 and students. 



BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 



The contract for the construction of the west wing of the Natural 

 History Building, including the last stage of renovation of the original 

 building, was signed in August 1963. Excavation for the wing was 

 begun in November and, owing to a mild winter, the foundations were 

 laid and the superstructure erected at a rapid rate. By the end of the 

 fiscal year most of the granite facing was in place. 



Within the original building a large L-shaped area in the northwest 

 comer of the third floor was cleared for renovation by October. Work 

 in this area proceeded slowly, owing to the need for preliminary in- 

 stallation of electrical conduits. This area was still not finished by 

 the end of the fiscal year, but work was proceeding at a faster pace. 



The General Services Administration accepted all remaining areas 

 and systems of the Museum of History and Technology, not previously 

 accepted, effective August 30, 1963, with certain exceptions. 



President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the building at ceremonies 

 held in the evening of January 22, 1964. The Museum was opened to 

 the public at 9:00 a.m., January 23, 1964. The Museum has been 

 visited by record-breaking crowds and has become the focus of the 

 attention of scholars, university departments, and museum profes- 

 sionals, who are interested by the impact which the scholarly staff and 

 great collections of the Smithsonian can have on education at all 

 levels from the elementary student to the postgraduate. 



CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 



Approval for the establishment of a Department of Entomology 

 was given by former Secretary Leonard Carmichael on April 30, 1963. 

 Accordingly, on July 1, 1963, the division of insects was separated 

 from the Department of Zoology and became the Department of 

 Entomolgy. The five divisions in the department are: Neuropteroids, 

 Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Myriapoda and Arachnida, and Hemiptera.^ 



* For administrative purposes, and until new divisions are established In the new 

 Department of EntomoIoRy, the newly created units will deal with subject matters not 

 necessarily closely related ; the division of neuropteroids will handle administrative 

 matters pertaining to the Orthoptera and Isoptera ; the division of Lepidoptera will 

 handle Diptera ; the division of Hemlptera will process transactions involving Hymenop- 

 tera. 



