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through the appointment of Mr. Herbert W. Krieger as curator 

 and Mr. Henry B. Collins as assistant curator of ethnology. In the 

 department of arts and industries Miss Aida M. Doyle was appointed 

 aid to succeed Mr. Harry W. RabinoAvitz, resigned, and in the divi- 

 sion of history Miss Hortense Hoad was appointed aid. 



In accordance wnth the special provision, included in the last 

 appropriation act, creating a new Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution to have general charge of the museum interests 

 of the Institution, including the United States National Museum, the 

 National Gallery of Art and the National Zoological Park, the pres- 

 ent incumbent was honored with appointment to that office on the 

 1st of April, 1925. 



The Museum lost two employees during the year through the 

 operation of the retirement act, viz, Mr. N. P. Scudder, assistant 

 librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the Museum 

 librar}^, and Robert Ghor, fireman. The only death among em- 

 ployees on the active rolls of the Museum was that of Israel Free- 

 man, a laborer, employed in the Museum over 15 years, who died on 

 July 16, 1924. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Alexander Wetmore, 



Assistant Secretary. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary^ S?niths(y}vian Institution. 



