48 REPORT OV NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1W2. 



appropriated $4:50,000 toward tho erection of a (xovernment building 

 and SSOO.OOo for tho preparation and installation of an exhibit by the 

 several departments and bureaus of the Government. Dr. Frederick 

 \\ . True, Head Curator of Biolo«»v, and with a long experience in 

 exposition work, has been appointed to represent the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the National ^luseum on the Government Board of 

 Management. 



ORGANIZATIOX AND STAFF. 



The organization of the Museum comprises an administrative office 

 and three scientitic departments, as follows: Anthropology, with 8 

 divisions and -t sections: Biology, Avith divisions and 1:2 sections; 

 and Geology, with o divisions and 3 sections. 



Besides th(^ o head curators in charge of the departments, the 

 scientitic stati' at the close of the year consisted of 17 curators, 12 

 assistant curators. 14 custodians. 11 aids, i associates, and '2 collabo- 

 rators, making a total of 63 persons, of whom, however, only about 

 one-half received compensation from the Museum. Of the remainder, 

 who are serving in a V(dunteer or honorary capacity, the majority 

 were attached to other scientitic bureaus of the Government. 



The tleatli of Dr. Thomas Wilson, which occurred on May 1, 11*02, 

 deprived the ^Museum of one of its most earni>st and helpful workers. 

 Widely distinguished for his studies and contrilnitions on a variety of 

 anthropological subjects. Dr. Wilson's interests lay chiefly in the field 

 of prehistoric archeology, and from 1880 he had charge, as curator, 

 of the extensive and important collections of this division of the 

 Museum. 



Mr. William \'. Cox, who was appointed to the ^Museum in 1879, 

 and has l)een its chief clerk since 188ii. with important duties in con- 

 nection with all the recent expositions in which the Government has 

 participated, severed his official relations with the Museum in Feb- 

 ruary. 1002, greatly to the regret of his associates, to accept a more 

 responsible position elsewhere. The duties of this office have been 

 somewhat modified to better consolidate the administrative work, and 

 the title of its chief officer has been changed to administrative assist- 

 ant. This position was filled by the appointment of ]Mr. W. de C. 

 Ravenel, previously the assistant in charge of fish t-ulture in the U. S. 

 Fish Commission, who has joined to a long experience in the adminl^- 

 trative work of that Bureau a familiarity with the preparation and 

 installation of Government exhibits. 



Mr. George B. Turner has been made chief taxidermist, and Mr. 

 W. C. Phalen an aid in the Department of Geology. Dr. Peter Fire- 

 man, chemical geologist, resigned on September 0. 



Mr. Leonhard Stejneger, Curator of Reptiles and Batrachians. repre- 

 sented the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum at the Fifth 



