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On February 1, 1919, Mr. Joseph Mailliard was appointed 

 honorary curator, department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, 

 this position having been vacant for several years. April 1, 

 Mr. Luther Little was appointed assistant curator, department 

 of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Mr. Little resigned January 

 31, 1920, to go into business. During Mr. Little's connection 

 of ten months with the Museum he rendered very efficient 

 service and it is with real regret that we see him leave us. 



Mr. William Heim was temporarily employed as taxidermist 

 from February 1 to May 22. He was again employed in 

 the same capacity October 1. On August 1 Mr. Paul J. Fair 

 and Mr. Arthur L. Reed were taken off the roll as regular em- 

 ployees and began the preparation of the Roosevelt Elk group 

 under contract, which they completed December 20. Miss 

 Olive Cutter resigned July 31, as preparator. Dr. Roy E. 

 Dickerson, having been employed by the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany to do field work in the Philippines, which precluded the 

 possibility of his giving that attention to the department which 

 was necessary, was appointed honorary curator of Invertebrate 

 Paleontology April 1, and Dr. G. Dallas Hanna was appointed 

 curator. Dr. Hanna, at the time of his appointment was on the 

 Pribilof Islands as agent of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. He 

 returned from the Seal Islands in October and entered on his 

 duties with the Museum November 1. 



Georges Vorbe and Merle Israelsky, temporary employes, 

 department of Paleontology, were laid off, the former on April 

 25, the latter on June 8. 



Miss Lula M. Burt was employed as osteological preparator 

 from December 1, 1918, to April 30, 1919, and from July 30 

 to August 6, 1919. 



Mrs. Marian L. Campbell has, since November 30, 1919, 

 been giving one day a week to the department of Botany, and 

 Mrs. Kate E. Phelps has been serving as assistant in that de- 

 partment since December 1. 



The employes of the Academy at this date are the following : 

 Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director and Executive Cura- 

 tor of the Museum, and Editor; W. W. Sargeant, Secretary 

 to the Board of Trustees; Miss Susie Peers, Secretary to the 

 Director ; Joseph W. Hobson, Recording Secretary ; Miss Alice 

 Eastwood, curator, Department of Botany; Edward P. Van 



