REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 27 



five from tbe U. S. Geological Survey, and onefroai the Bureau of Eth- 

 nology. 



Dr. Charles Eau, for many years in charge of the archaeological col- 

 lection in the Museum, died on June 25, 1887, He was in 1881 appointed 

 curator of the Department of Antiquities in the National Museum. His 

 health gave way in 1886, and in July, 1887, he went to the hospital of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, where he died. His body was brought 

 to Washington, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. Dr. Rau has 

 been succeeded by Mr. Thomas Wilson, who recived his appointment 

 as honorary curator on December 1, In November Dr. H. G. Beyer, 

 U. S. Navy, honorary curator of the Section of Materia Medica, was 

 ordered to other duties, and Dr. James M. Flint, the first curator of 

 this collection, has again taken charge. Th*:' Museum has commenced 

 the formation of a collection of casts of Assyrian and Babylonian an- 

 tiquities in association with the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Paul 

 Haupt, professor of Semitic languages in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, was in February appointed honorary curator. Dr. Cyrus Adler, 

 of the same university, consenting to act as honorary assistant curator. 

 The Section of Transportation, under the care of Mr. J. E. Watkins, 

 has now reached that point in its history where it may take rank with 

 the other sections of the Department of Arts and Industries. On May 

 9 the Department of Living Animals was organized, with Mr. W. T. 

 Horuaday, chief taxidermist, as curator. On June 8 Charles Wickliffe 

 Beckham, formerly an assistant in the Department of Birds, died. He 

 made several valuable contributions to American ornithological liter- 

 ature. 



In other respects the personnel of the scientific departments in the 

 Museum remains the same as in 1887, as shown in the following classi- 

 fied list : 

 I. Arts and Industries, the Assistant Secretary acting as curator, with adjunct 

 curatorships as tollows: 



Animal Products : R. Edward Earll, U. S. Fish Commission, acting cu- 

 rator.* 



Foods: W. O. Atwater, curator.* 



Fisheries : R. Edward Earll, acting curator.* 



Materia Medica : James M. Flint, M. D., U. S. Navy, curator.* 



Textile Industries : Romyn Hitchcock, acting curator. t 



Historical Relics : A. Howard Clark, assistant curator. 



Transportation and Engineering : J. Elfreth Watkins, curator. 



Graphic Arts: S. R. Koehler, acting curator. 



Naval Architecture : J. W. Collins, U. S. Fish Commission, curator.* 

 II. Ethnology: Otis T. Mason, curator; Walter Hough, aid. 



American Aboiuginal Pottery: W. H. Holmes, Bureau of Ethnology, cu- 

 rator.* 



Oriental Antiquities: Paul Haupt, curator ;* Cyrus Adler, assistant cu- 

 rator. 



III. Prehistoric Anthropology : Thomas Wilson. 



IV. Mammals: F. W. True, curator; W. G. Stimpson, aid. 



* Honorary. + Absent in Japan. 



