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on January 30, 1958. Dr. Derek Price, consultant for exhibits of 
physics and astronomy, completed his assignment on January 3, 1958. 
In the department of geology, Dr. Richard S. Boardman transferred 
from the U.S. Geological Survey to the division of invertebrate 
paleontology and paleobotany on July 1, 1957; Dr. Peter P. Vaughn 
accepted an appointment as associate curator of vertebrate paleon- 
tology effective July 15, 1957; Paul E. Desautels was appointed as- 
sociate curator of mineralogy and petrology on August 5, 1957; and 
Roy 8S. Clarke, Jr., transferred as chemist to the division of min- 
eralogy and petrology from the U.S. Geological Survey on October 
21,1957. Dr. Porter M. Kier, appointed associate curator of inverte- 
brate paleontology and paleobotany on June 16, 1957, was inadvert- 
ently omitted from the list of new appointments during the previous 
fiscal year. 
Dr. Ralph S. Solecki accepted an appointment of associate curator 
of prehistoric Old World archeology on August 26, 1957, following 
his return from archeological fieldwork on the Shanidar, Iraq, 
project. 
On March 27, 1958, Bela S. Bory was appointed supervisory ex- 
hibits specialist and placed in charge of the production laboratory 
of the Museum of History and Technology. 
J. Russell Sirlouis, assistant curator of military history, retired 
on June 30, 1957, after 42 years of service with the Institution. 
Robert S. Woodbury, curator in charge of the sections of civil 
and mechanical engineering, resigned July 9, 1957, to return to his 
former position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Grace E. Glance, associate curator of entomology, retired July 
31, 1957. Miss Glance transferred to the division of entomology 
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1948 after having been 
employed in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine since 
1925. 
Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., associate curator of philately and postal 
history, by lateral transfer on November 18, 1957, became director 
of the division of philately of the Post Office Department. 
Herbert W. Krieger, curator of ethnology, retired November 30, 
1957, after having served 33 years in the department of anthropology. 
Mr. Krieger had participated in fieldwork sponsored by the Insti- 
tution in southeast Alaska, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba, the Bahama 
Islands, and the Virgin Islands. 
After having served more than 48 years as taxidermist on the 
exhibits staff, Charles R. Aschemeier retired May 31,1958. He repre- 
sented the Smithsonian Institution on the Collins-Garner Expedition 
to the Fornan Vaz District of Belgian Congo, where fieldwork was 
