38 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



The vacancy resulting from the death of Dr. William F. Foshag was 

 filled July 16, 1956, by the promotion of Dr. G. Arthur Cooper to head 

 curator of the department of geology. 



In the department of botany, Dr. Lyman B. Smith was promoted to 

 curator of phanerogams effective August 20, 1956, Dr. Kichard S. 

 Cowan was appointed associate curator of phanerogams on May 1, 

 1957, and Dr. Mason E. Hale, Jr., as associate curator of cryptogams 

 on June 17, 1957. 



Vacancies in the department of engineering and industries were 

 filled by the appointment of Dr. Robert S. Woodbury as curator of 

 mechanical and civil engineering July 9, 1956, of Edwin A. Battison 

 as associate curator of light machinery July 19, 1956, of Dr. Philip 

 W. Bishop as curator of industrial cooperation October 1, 1956, and 

 of Dr. Derek J. Price as consultant on the history of science, particu- 

 larly scientific instruments January 7, 1957. 



Dr. Philip W. Bishop on May 15, 1957, was designated acting head 

 curator of the department of arts and manufactures as a result of 

 the reorganization of the former department of engineering and in- 

 dustries. Dr. Eobert P. Multhauf will serve as head curator of the 

 department of science and technology. 



Vacancies in the department of history were filled by the appoint- 

 ment of Edgar M. Howell on September 10, 1956, as acting curator 

 of military history and of Dr. Vladimir Clain-Stef anelli on October 1, 

 1956, as curator of numismatics. Mrs. Anne W. Murray was reas- 

 signed to serve as assistant curator of civil history July 17, 1956. 

 Mendel L. Peterson, acting head curator of the former department 

 of history, became, effective November 13, 1956, head curator of the 

 department of armed forces history. Dr. Brooke Hindle agreed to 

 serve as consultant on the planning for the historical exhibits on March 

 13, 1957. 



Robert Sterling Clark, 79, art leader and sportsman, died December 

 29, 1956, at Williamstown, Mass. He founded the Sterling and Fran- 

 cine Clark Art Institute, which opened in May 1954 at Williamstown. 

 Clark, a collaborator in zoology since 1922, engaged Arthur de Carle 

 Sowerby in 1909 for a 3-year period to accompany him as naturalist 

 of a scientific and geological expedition into northwestern China, and 

 subsequently financed the latter's collecting expeditions for the next 

 20 years. The zoological specimens were sent to the National Museum. 



Stuart Hoffman Perry, 82, associate in mineralogy since April 1, 

 1940, died at Tucson, Ariz., February 15, 1957. Mr. Perry, a generous 

 donor of meteorites and fossils to the national collections, received the 

 G. Lawrence Smith medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 

 1946. He was the author of United States National Museum Bulletin 

 184, "The Metallography of Meteoric Iron." 



