12 OiiGANIZATION OF THE U. 8. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



of the Assistant Director. He will also employ, or assign, laborers and 

 assistants so as best to facilitate the operations of the Museum, and 

 will co-operate with the Chief Clerk of the Smithsonian Institution in 

 all matters in which the general interests of the estfiblishraent are 

 concerned. 



XVIII. 



Curators. — The Curators and Acting Curators will be held responsible 

 for the preservation and proper use of all objects belonging to the de- 

 l^artments uiuler their charge. They will direct the labors of such 

 assistants as may be assigned to them. They will receive and make 

 entry of specimens sent them by the registrar and make the necessary 

 reports on the accession cards upon their names and nature for use in 

 the preparation of the "list of accessions." They will keep the collec- 

 tions under their charge conveniently and accessibly arranged either in 

 the exhibition halls or in the laboratories belonging to their respective 

 departments and will aid investigators in gaining access to specimens 

 which they may desire to consult. They will condu(5t such correspond- 

 ence as may be assigned to them, in accordance with the regulations 

 laid down in the section of this document relating to correspondence. 



XIX. 



Reports of Curators. — Curators and Acting Curators will make monthly 

 reports to the Director of the Museum of the work done in their respect- 

 ive departments, designating its general character, the number of spec- 

 imens entered or catalogued, and such details as may be necessary to 

 furnish a current history of the operations of the Museum. 



XX. 



Assistants. — Assistant Curators, Assistants, and Aids (above grade 



X) maybe assigned to duty as "acting curators" of departments, in 



which case they are subject to curators' rules. Otherwise they will be 



detailed to special duty as assistants to curators or to service in the 



Division of Administration. 



XXI. 



Clerics, Copyists, and Messe7igers. — Clerks, Copyists, and Messengers 

 will be detailed to work under the direction of the chief of some de- 

 partment. 



XXII. ■ 



Artists and Preparators. — Artists and Preparators, when not other- 

 wise assigned, will report for instructions to the Assistant Director. 



XXIII. 



Mechanics, Laborers, Attendants, and Cleaners. — Mechanics, and Labor- 

 ers, Attendants, Cleaners, «S:c., when not otherwise assigned, will report 

 for instructions to the Superintendent of Buildings. 



The duties of special officers will be explained in the regulations of 

 the special departments. 



