62 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908, 
International Maritime Eaposition, Bordeaux, France-—This ex- 
position, which was also officially opened before the close of the 
previous fiscal year, was likewise described in the last annual report. 
Of the $15,000 appropriated by Congress only about $8,000 was avail- 
ible for the preparation, installation, and maintenance of the entire 
government exhibit, which, at the request of the Secretary of State, 
was undertaken by the Smithsonian Institution and placed in charge 
of Mr. W. de C. Ravenel. Owing to delays on the part of this Gov- 
ernment, the United States pavilion was not completed and turned 
over to Mr. D. I. Murphy, American consul at Bordeaux, until late 
in June, but by expeditious methods it was made possible to admit 
the public on July 4, although the installation was not finished until 
the 20th of that month. The exposition remained open until Novem- 
ber 10, when the work of repacking the collection was immediately 
begun under the direction of Mr. F. C. Cole, of the Museum staff, who 
had assisted Mr. Ravenel in its installation. The shipment reached 
Washington in January, 1908, and the articles contributed by the 
several government departments were returned to them. A number 
of objects which had been exhibited by other participants were 
secured for the Museum. 
Aasha-Vukon-Pacific: Buposition.—Vo enable the Government to 
participate in this exposition, which will be held in Seattle, Wash- 
ington, in 1909, the sum of $600,000 was appropriated in the sundry 
civil act, approved May 27, 1908. Of this amount $200,000 was 
allotted for exhibition purposes, under the direction of a board of 
management to be appointed by the President, composed of three 
persons now in the employ of the Government. Although the board 
was not constituted until after the close of the year, it may be men- 
tioned here that Mr. Ravenel, Administrative Assistant of the 
Museum, has been designated as one of its members. The part spe- 
cifically directed to be taken by the Smithsonian Institution and 
National Museum consists in the exhibition of “such articles and 
inaterial of an historical nature as will impart a knowledge of our 
national history, especially that of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philip- 
pine Islands, and that part of the United States west of the Rocky 
Mountains.” | 
ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 
The only change in the matter of organization was made in the 
department of geology, where three divisions, corresponding with 
former sections, were substituted for the division of stratigraphic 
paleontology. They are as follows: Division of invertebrate paleon- 
tology, with Dr. R. S. Bassler as curator; division of vertebrate 
paleontology, with Mr. James W. Gidley as custodian of the mam- 
malian collection, and Mr. Charles W, Gilmore custodian of the 
