24 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT 



During the year five office rooms assigned to the division of crafts 

 and industries in the Arts and Industries Building were reconditioned, 

 the work involving the construction of concrete floors, the painting 

 of the office rooms, and replastering of one wall. Steel racks were 

 constructed for housing 1,170 drawers, which provided accessibility to 

 3,860 cubic feet of anthropological materials hitherto located in essen- 

 tially dead storage. 



CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF 



The vacancy in the division of medicine and public health was 

 filled on December 8, 1952, by the appointment of George B. Griffen- 

 hagen as associate curator. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



Remington Kjellogg, Director. 

 Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary^ Smithsonian Institution. 



