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March 21 until April 21. The other, comprising 55 marine paintings 
by Mr. William F. Halsall, was held from April 23 until June 15. 
ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 
It has been found advisable to change the designations of the two 
divisions of archeology, which has involved the shitting of responsi- 
bility for the custody of certain classes of material but no modifica- 
tion in the staff connected with them. The titles hitherto recognized 
have been “ Prehistoric archeology ” and “ Historic archeology.” In 
the division bearing the former name were included all antiquities, 
however modern, from America, while in the other were placed only 
so-called historic antiquities from other parts of the world. Under 
the present arrangement, which, though partly put in operation 
some time ago, was not officially recognized until last year, the divi- 
sions are termed “American archeology ” and “Old World arche- 
ology,” respectively, the classification assumed being, therefore, 
broadly geographical and without reference to the age of the antiqui- 
ties. This classification is, moreover, more philosophical than the 
other, as the prehistoric collections of the two worlds do not touch 
at any point, and the historic phase of Old World archeology con- 
nects without break with the prehistoric. Mr. William H. Holmes, 
head curator of the department of anthropology, will continue the 
supervision of the division of American archeology, while Dr. I. M. 
Casanowicz, assistant curator, will be in charge of the division of 
Old World archeology. Mr. Neil M. Judd, aid in the division of 
ethnology, was on leave without pay from January 1 to April 30, 
1914, to enable him to engage in field work for the Panama-Califor- 
nia Exposition. Mr. Joseph B. Leavy was appointed philatelist in 
the division of history on November 5, 1913. Mr. Thomas W. 
Sweeny, who had been a preparator in the division of ethnology for 
many years and had taken an important part in the installation of 
the exhibition collections in the new building, died on April 4, 1914. 
On his appointment as director of the museum of the California 
Academy of Sciences, Dr. Barton W. Evermann resigned the cura- 
torship of the division of fishes, dating from March 31, 1914. 
Mr. Alfred C. Weed, aid in the same division, was granted a year’s 
furlough from July 15, 1913, and on January 2, 1914, Dr. John O. 
Snyder, of Leland Stanford Junior. University, began upon the 
revision of the extensive collection of fishes, as explained elsewhere. 
Mr. H. K. Harring, of the Bureau of Standards, was designated 
honorary custodian of the Rotatoria in the division of marine inver- 
tebrates on May 1, 1914, and Dr. Nathan Banks resigned his custo- 
dianship of the Arachnida in the division of insects on October 22, 
1913. Mr. Copley Amory, jr., of Boston, Mass., was appointed hon- 
orary collaborator in zoology for two years, beginning June 1, 1914. 
