8 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



deferred until the next report. The curatorshii^s are now organized as 

 follows : 



DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Department I. — Arts and Industries, the Assistant Director acting as 

 curator (A. Howard Clark, assistant, two preparators), with adjunct 

 curatorships as follows : 



(a) Materia Medica. H. G. Beyer, M. D., U. S. K., honorary curator; 

 one clerk. 



(b) Textile Industries. Eomyn Hitchcock, acting curator. 



(c) Fisheries. E. Edward Earll, curator. 



{d) Animal Products. E. Edward Earll, acting curator. 



(e) Naval Architecture. J. W. Collins, U. S. Fish Commission, hon- 

 orary curator. 



(/) Foods. Eomyn Hitchcock, acting curator. 



(g) Historical Eelics. A. Howard Clark in charge. 



In this department, it may be stated, is administered very much of 

 the material usually arranged by museums in their ethnological series, 

 and the curator of Ethnology is acting as adjunct curator in the Depart- 

 ment of Arts and Industries. 



(h) Steam Transportation. J. E. Watkins, honorary curator. 



Department II (A). — Ethnology. Otis T. Mason, curator; one pre- 

 parator and two clerks. 



Department II {B). — ^American Prehistoric Pottery. W. H. Holmes, 

 Bureau of Ethnology, honorary curator; one preparator. 



Department III. — Antiquities. Charles Eau, curator, E. P. Upham, 

 assistant. 



DIVISION OP ZOOLOGY. 



Department lY. — Mammals. Frederick W. True, curator; one clerk, 

 two preparators. 



Department V {A). — Birds. Eobert Eidgway, curator, Leonhard Stej- 

 neger, assistant curator; one clerk and one preparator. 



Department V {B). — Birds' Eggs. Capt. Charles Bendire, U. S. A., 

 honorary curator ; one clerk. 



Department VI. — Eeptiles and Batrachians. H. C. Yarrow, M. D., 

 U. S. A., honorary curator. 



Department VII. — Fishes. Tarleton H. Bean, curator; two assist- 

 ants detailed from the U. S. Fish Commission. 



Department VIII. — Comparative Anatomy. Frederick W. True, cura- 

 tor, F. A. Lucas, assistant; one preparator. 



Department IX. — MoUusks. W. H. Dall, curator, E. E. C. Stearns, 

 adjunct curator; one clerk. 



Department X. — Insects. C. Y. Eiley, honorary curator. 



Department XL — Marine Invertebrates. Eichard Eathbun, U. S. 

 Fish Commission, curator; one assistant, and one clerk detailed from 

 the U. S. Fish Commission. 



