62 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



The Institution was represented at the meeting of the International 

 Congress on Education, held in St. Louis, from June 28 to July 1 , 1904, 

 by Dr. Marcus YV. Lyon, jr., of the Museum staff. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



Upon the completion of the new building, it is proposed to take 

 advantage of the additional space afforded to reorganize and place 

 upon a proper basis that branch of the Museum which is best compre- 

 hended under the title arts and industries. The Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition, however, furnished such an exceptional opportunity for 

 obtaining material illustrative of mineral technology that a depart- 

 ment under this name was established in the autumn of 1904, in 

 order that the selection of specimens at St. Louis might be judiciously 

 supervised. Dr. Charles I). Walcott, Director of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has accepted the curatorship of this department. 



Dr. Cyrus Adler has been made curator, and Dr. I. M. Casanowicz 

 assistant curator of. historic archeology, and Dr. Paul Haupt, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, an associate in the same division. 



Four other associates, this being an honorary title, were also desig- 

 nated during the year, as follows: In zoology, Dr. W. L. Abbott, of 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; in botany, Capt. John Donnell Smith, of 

 Baltimore, Maryland; in mineralogy, the Rev. L. T. Chamberlain, of 

 New York City, and in paleobotany, Prof. Lester F. Ward, for many 

 years associate curator of the collection of fossil plants. 



Dr. J. X. Rose has been advanced to associate curator in the divi- 

 sion of plants, and Mr. W. R. Maxon to assistant curator. Mr. J. H. 

 Painter was appointed aid in the same division, and Mr. Homer D. 

 House served in a like capacity during live months of the .year. 



Dr. James E. Benedict, assistant curator of the division of marine 

 invertebrates, has had direct charge of the exhibits in biology. 



Mr. Herbert S. Barber was made an aid in the division of insects 

 to (ill the vacancy caused by the transfer of Mr. R. P. Currie to the 

 Department of Agriculture, and Mr. B. II. Ransom has been 

 appointed assistant custodian of the helminthological collections. 

 The appointment in 1903-4 of Mr. C. A. McKnew as aid in the division 

 of fishes, and Mr. E. J. Horgan as aid in the section of birds' eggs, 

 failed to receive mention in the last report. 



Mr. Charles Schuchert, assistant curator of stratigraphic paleon- 

 tology, resigned during the year to accept the position of professor of 

 paleontology in Yale University, and was succeeded by Dr. Ray S. 

 Bassler, of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. W. H. Xewhall, aid in 

 the division of systematic and applied geology, died on May 21, 1905, 

 and his place has been temporarily filled by the appointment of Mr. 

 W. O. Snelling. Vacancies in the section of fossil vertebrates were 

 idled by the selection of Mr. James W. Gidley and Mr. Charles W. 



