OKGANIZATION OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 9 



CL,ASSIFICATIOK OF THE DEPARTMENTS. 



XV. 



The following classification of the collections has been provisionally 

 adopted:* 

 Division of Anthropology. 



Department I. — Art and Industry. 

 Department II. — Races of men. 

 Department III.— ^Antiquities. 

 Division of Zoology. 



Department IV. — Mammals. 

 Department V. — Birds. 

 Department VI. — Reptiles and Batrachians. 

 Department VII. — Fishes. 

 Dei)artment VIII. — MoUusks. 

 Department IX. — Insects. 

 Department X. — Crustaceans. 

 Department XI. — Worms. 

 Department XII. — Radiates and Protozoans. 

 Department XIII. — Invertebrate Fossils. 

 Division of Botany. 



Department XIV. — Recent Plants. 

 Department XV. — Fossil Plants. 

 Division of Geology. 



Department XVI. — Physical Geology. 

 Department XVII. — Minerals and Rocks. 

 Department XVIII. — Metallurgy and Economic Geology. 

 Division of Exploration and Experiment. 



Department XIX. — Exploration and Field work. 

 Department XX. — Chemistry. 

 Department XXI. — Experimental Physiology. 

 Department XXII. — Vivaria. 

 To these divisions is added a sixth, the 

 Division of Administration. 

 Department A. — Direction. 



(Supervision of routine work ; Installation and labeling; Apart- 

 ments and keys; Cases and furniture; Supplies; Offers, bids, 

 and contracts ; Certification of accounts ; Requisitions and 

 complaints; Assignments of work — leaves of absence ; Gen- 

 eral correspondence and circulars ; Supervision of other de- 

 partments in division of administration ; Reports.) 



* This classification is founded solely upon considerations of present cc nvenience in 



Museum administration. 



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