42 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



Curator of Graphic Arts, Mr. S. R. Koehler, whose connection with 

 the Institution began in 1887, and who was also for many years the 

 curator of prints in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 



Dr. \V. L. Ralph, Custodian of the Section of Birds' Eggs since the 

 death of Maj. Charles Bendire, T. S. Army, and who has contributed 

 liberally of his time and means toward improving the collections under 

 his charge, has been made the honorary curator of that section. Mr. 

 V. A. Lucas. Curator of Comparative Anatomy, has also been designated 

 Acting Curator of Vertebrate Fossils; Mr. George C. Maynard has been 

 advanced from aid to assistant curator in the Division of Technology. 

 Mr. Peter Fireman has received a temporary appointment as chemical 

 geologist, and Miss Harriet Richardson has been made a collaborator 

 in the Division of Marine Invertebrates. 



Mrs. F .Weinheimer, preparator in the Division of Plants, resigned 

 on January 1. 1901, and Mr. Joseph Sessford, long connected with 

 the Museum and for several years past serving as clerk in the Division 

 of Re] (tiles and Batrachians, died on March 8, 1901. 



Dr. Thomas Wilson, Curator of Prehistoric Archaeology, visited 

 Taiis during the summer of 1900 as the representative of the Museum 

 to the Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology and the 

 Congress of Americanists, at both of which he presented papers else- 

 where referred to in this report. Before the close of the fiscal year 

 Dr. Leonhard Stejneger was appointed to represent the Museum at 

 the International Congress of Zoology, which was to meet at Berlin, 

 Germany.- in August, 1901. 



A list of the members of the scientific and administrative staffs will 

 be found in Appendix 1. 



NECROLOGY. 



Mr. Sylvester H. Koehler, Honorary Curator of the Division of 

 Graphic Arts in the National Museum, died September 15, 1000. Mr. 

 Koehler was born in Leipsic, Germany, in 1837, but came to America 

 when he was 12 years of age. In 1868 he entered, as technical manager, 

 the establishment of L. Prang & Co., Boston, where he mastered the 

 processes used in the graphic arts. Gen. Charles G. Loring, Director 

 of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, states that the knowledge which 

 Mr. Koehler thus gained "was supplemented by an artistic tempera- 

 ment, which showed itself also in his fondness for music, in his 

 love of verse, and Ins skill, though a moderate one, with the pencil. 

 I ears of study, too, had given him an intimate acquaintance with the 

 history of his art and confirmed his judgment. He was an admirable 

 critic of work, both creative and technical. * * * He not only 

 became the ultimate authority in the land of his adoption, but his 

 knowledge and judgment were held in greal esteem in the art centers 

 of Europe." 



Mr. Koehler was appointed curator of the print department in the 



