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the evening of November 1, with which the exhibition of lithographs 

 illustrating war work, by Joseph Pennell, was opened. There were 

 108 views in all, of which 49 were in the British series and the 

 remainder were representative of war work in the United States. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



Mr. Theodore T. Belote, assistant curator of the division of history 

 since 1909, was appointed curator on July 1, 1917; Dr. Joseph E. 

 Pogue was temporarily made special assistant in the division of 

 mineral technology on July 2, 1917, and on September 16, 1917, was 

 appointed assistant curator; Mr. H. S. Bryant, clerk and for some 

 years acting chief in the office of correspondence and documents, 

 was on January 16, 1918, made chief of that office; Mr. Charles 

 W. Gilmore, assistant curator of the section of vertebrate paleon- 

 tology, was made associate curator on April 1, 1918; and Mr. Neil 

 M. Judd, aid in ethnology, was advanced to the position of assist- 

 ant curator in the department of anthropology on March 1, 1918. 

 Mr. William M. N. Watkins was appointed assistant curator of the 

 section of wood technology on January 26, 1918 ; Mr. Charles White- 

 bread, assistant curator of the division of medicine on April 2, 1918 ; 

 Mr. Emery C. Leonard, aid in the division of plants on January 

 2, 1918; Mr. Edmund H. Gibson, custodian of Hemiptera of the 

 division of insects, on November 26, 1917; Mr. B. Preston Clark, 

 collaborator in the same division, on November 27, 1917; and Mr. 

 Frank L. Hess, custodian of the collection of rare metals and rare 

 earths, department of geology, on December 11, 1917. On August 

 23, 1917, Mr. Philip A. Means was made honorary collaborator in 

 archeology for the year ending June 30, 1918 ; and the appointment 

 of Mr. Alfred M. Collins, collaborator in zoology, was extended for 

 one year from February 12, 1918. 



Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, assistant curator of the division of min- 

 eralogy and petrology, resigned on August 15, 1917, to accept a 

 position in the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agri- 

 culture; Mr. Roger B. Maxwell, assistant curator of the section of 

 wood technology, severed his connection with the Museum on Sep- 

 tember 10, 1917; Dr. Eiley D. Moore, aid in the division of physical 

 anthropology, resigned on June 20, 1918 ; and Mr. Edward S. Steele, 

 editorial assistant, was transferred to the Department of Agriculture 

 on June 7, 1918. 



The following members of the staff were granted furloughs for 

 indefinite periods, to enable them to enter military service : Mr. A. H. 

 Pottinger, aid in the division of insects, on September 11, 1917; 

 Mr. Joseph Donner, assistant curator of the division of medicine, on 

 February 1, 1918; Mr. Emery C. Leonard, aid in the division of 



