238 CALII'DKNIA ACADEMY OF SClENCliS | F'roc. 4th Sf.r. 



KM I'LOYEES 



'The i"c<4ul.'ir cniployccs of the Museum during the year 1916 

 have been as follows: 



Director and ICxecutive Curator, Dr. Barton Warren Ever- 

 mann ; Curator, Dei)artnicnt of Botany, Miss Alice Eastwood; 

 Curator, Department of Entomology, \\. P. Van Duzee; Cura- 

 tor, Department of I ler])etology. Dr. John Van Dcnburgh ; 

 Assistant Curator, Joseph \i. Slevin; Acting Curator, Depart- 

 ment of Mammals, John Rowley; Curator, Department of In- 

 vertebrate Zoology, Dr. Walter K. Eisher ; Chief, Department 

 of I'^xhibits, John Rowley; Assistants, Arthur L. Bolton, Paul 

 J. Is'iir, Joseph P. Herring, and Mrs. M. L. Pariser; Assistant 

 Curator, Department of Invertebrat-e Paleontology, Dr. Roy \l. 

 Dickerson ; Librarirui. I )r. Joseph (jrinnell ; Assistant Librar- 

 ian, \\. P. Van Du/.ee ; Secretary, W. VV. Sargeant ; Stenog- 

 rapher and Typewriter, Miss Susie Peers; (leneral Office As- 

 sistant, Ignatius W. McCuire; (ieneral Museum Assistant, 

 John I. Carlson; Janitor, James 11. Chastain ; Assistant, Wm. 

 C. Lewis; Janitress, Mrs. Johanna 1^. Wilkens; Night Watch- 

 man, iM-ank VV. Yale; Day Watch. Patrick J. O'lhien. 



DKI'AKTM KNT ACriVITlK.S 



The installation of the research collections of the respective 

 departments having been practically completed before the be- 

 ginning of the calendar year P)U), the curators and their as- 

 sistants have been able to devote most of their time to field 

 work for the securing of new material and to the care and 

 study of the collections. The condition and actixities of the 

 various departments are set forth in detail in the reports of the 

 respective curators and need be referred to here only briefly. 



Di'lnirliiu'iil of Hohtiiy. — The customary enthusiasm and de- 

 voted industry have chaiacterizecl the department of botany 

 during the year. The mounting and labeling of specimens has 

 engaged much of the time of the curator. In this vvoik she has 

 been materially assisted by the members of the Botanical Club, 

 with whose help the herbarium has been put in excellent condi- 

 tion. y\mong the members of the Club who have rendered 

 especially valuable service should be mentioned Mrs. Marian L. 



