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psychology is omitted, since its operations consist of experiments. 

 Its apparatus is provided for in the division of technology, under the 

 class of metrics. Language also is omitted, since its investigation is 

 assigned to the Bureau of American Ethnology. The same is to be 

 said of sociology and primitive religions. The closest relationship, 

 however, exists between the two dependencies of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, the Museum, and the Bureau of American Ethnology, since 

 cult objects, the paraphernalia of customs, writings, and inscriptions 

 are tangible things and may be exhibited. Mr. William H. Holmes 

 served as honorary curator, and Mr. J. D. McGuire as collaborator 

 in the division of prehistoric archeology, Mr. E. P. Upham having 

 charge of cataloguing. The division of technology was enlarged to 

 include all phases of handicraft. Mr. Paul Brockett has been made 

 custodian of the division of graphic arts. The division of religions 

 becomes the division of historic religions, the cults of unlettered 

 peoples being assigned to the Bureau of American Ethnology and 

 their cult objects exhibited in the division of ethnology. The divi- 

 sion of history and biography becomes the division of history, with 

 Mr. A. H. Clark as honorary curator and Mr. Paul Beckwith, 

 assistant curator. In February Miss Mary Virginia Young was 

 made clerk in the office of the Acting Head Curator, and in April Mr. 

 Richard A. Allen was appointed preparator in the Department. 



