40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUnON, 1962 



encourage effective use of Smithsonian museum exhibits by teacher 

 and student alike. 



BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 



At the close of the fiscal year the contract for construction of the 

 west wing and completion of renovation of the existing Natural 

 History Building of the Smithsonian Institution had not been 

 awarded. The west wing when completed will provide laboratories 

 and workrooms as well as more adequate storage space for collections 

 of the entire department of botany and the divisions of fishes, reptiles 

 and amphibians, marine invertebrates, and insects. On June 26, 1962, 

 construction of the east wing, which was started on January 3, 1961, 

 was about 85 percent complete. 



During the year construction of the building for the Museum of 

 History and Teclmology reached the stage where it was deemed 

 advisable to place two of the largest museum objects in the exhibition 

 galleries. The large steam locomotive and tender presented by the 

 Southern Railway System was placed on the rails in the first-floor 

 transportation hall, and the original Revolutionary War gunboat 

 PhiladelpMa was hoisted through a window to its display place in a 

 third-floor military history hall. The Public Buildings Service, Gen- 

 eral Services Administration, advises that limited areas in the build- 

 ing should be available for occupancy commencing in October 1962, 

 and that substantial occupancy of the entire building is estimated to be 

 possible in March 1963. At the end of the fiscal year the construction 

 of the building had reached 81 percent of completion. 



CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 



In the department of zoology. Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., accepted 

 appointment as head curator on Februaiy 1, 1962. Dr. Donald R. 

 Davis, specialist in microlepidopteran moths, was appointed associate 

 curator September 14, 1961, in the division of insects. A vacancy in 

 the division of moUusks was filled October 2, 1961, by the appointment 

 of Dr. Joseph Rosewater as associate curator. Dr. Donald F. Squires, 

 a stony-coral specialist, entered on duty as associate curator in the 

 division of marine invertebrates on December 18, 1961. Dr. Philip 

 S. Humphrey was appointed curator of birds on June 1, 1962. Dr. 

 William H. Crocker was appointed associate curator in ethnology Feb- 

 ruaiy 12, 1962, to provide coverage of South American aboriginal 

 material culture. 



Included among the additions to the staff of the Museum of History 

 and Technology were the appointments of Dr. Lester Clark Lewis as 

 curator of physical sciences on February 19, 1962, and Dr. Walter F. 

 Gannon as associate curator on Februaiy 5, 1962. In the division of 



