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srope aiul cliiiraetoT of this one a oreat divorsity of photooTaphif work 

 is callod for, and it is (juito pssential that tho hiohost standard of tho 

 art ho attained. In this respoct tlio National Musouni has boon very 

 fortunate from tho hotvinning-, and tho results acconiplishod have been 

 all that could be desired, as testified by the many illustrations scattered 

 through its publications which have been produced through this means. 

 Mr. Smillio's time is also parti}" shared with other branches of the 

 Institution: and on the Smithsonian eclipse expedition to Wadesboro, 

 N. C in May, lilOO. he was in immediate charge of tho photographic 

 branch. 



EXPOSITIONS. 



l*(in-Americ(m ExpoKltlon^ Bnfalo. — By act of Congress approved 

 March 8, 1899, the sum of $800,000 was appropriated for a Govern- 

 ment exhibit at tho Pan-American Exposition to 1)0 hold at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., in 1901, })esides an additional sum of $200,000 for the erection 

 of a building. Dr. Frederick W. True, executive curator, has been 

 designated as tho representative of the Smithsonian Institution and its 

 bureaus on the Government board of management, and Mr. W. V. 

 Cox as chief special agent. By the close of the past year the plans 

 for tho display on the part of the Museum had been essentially com- 

 pleted, and the work of bringing together and preparing the neces- 

 sary collections was being rapidly pushed. 



A series of models and original pieces of electrical apparatus belong- 

 ing to the Henry, Morse, and Farmer collections was sent to the Paris 

 Exposition of 1900, and several series of exhibits from the Division of 

 Graphic Arts to the Printing Exposition held in New York City 

 during the month of May, 1900. 



NECROLOOY. 



Frank Hamilton Cushing, one of the collaborators in the Division of 

 Ethnology in the National Museum, died April 10, 1900, He was born 

 in tho village of Northeast, Erie County, Pa., July 22, 185T. He took 

 a deep interest in the study of ethnology and archa?ology, and l)egan 

 making collections when but a boy. At the age of 18 he went to Cor- 

 nell University for the purpose of pursuing a special course in anthro- 

 pology. In 1876 ho was given charge of a portion of tho oxhi])it of 

 the Smithsonian Institution at the Centennial Exposition in Philadel- 

 phia, and in 1879 ho entered the service of the Smithsonian Bureau of 

 Ethnology. Mr. Cushing lived for many years among tho Indians of 

 the Southwest, during which time he acquired a thorough knowledge 

 of their customs, arts, language, religion, and tribal history. In 1887 

 he organized and conducted important archaeological explorations in 

 tho Salado and Gila valleys of Arizona under the auspices of the Ilem- 

 enway Southwestern Archa?ological Expedition. In 189(1 ho Avas placed 



