EEPOET OF ASSISTANT SECKETARY. 5 



four are "honorary" or unpaid officers, detailed from the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, one from the U. S. Navy, five from the IT. S. Geological 

 Survey, one from the Bureau of Ethnology, and two are volunteers. 



THE SCIENTIFIC STAFF. 



The scientific departments are now arranged as follows: 



DIVISION OP ANTHROPOLOGY. 



I. Department of Arts and Industries, the Assistant Secretary acting as cura- 

 tor, with adjunct curatorships as follows: 

 Animal Products, R. Edward Earll, U. S. Fish Commission, acting curator. 

 Foods, Roinyn Hitchcock, acting curator. 

 Fisheries, K. Edward Earll, acting curator. 



Materia Medica, H. G. Beyer, M. D., U. S. Navy, honprary curator. 

 Textile Industries, Romyn Hitchcock, acting curator. 

 Historical Relics, A. Howard Clark, assistant curator. 

 Transportation, J. E. Watkins, honorary curator. 

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



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

 II. Department of Ethnology, Otis T. Mason, curator. 



Department of American Ahoriginai Pottery, W. H. Holmes, Bureas of Eth- 

 nology, honorary curator. 



III. Department of Archaeology, Charles Rau, curator. 



DIVISION OP ZOOLOGY. 



IV. Department of Mammals, F. W. True, curator. 



V. Department of Birds, Robert Ridgway, curator; Leonhard Stejneger, assist- 

 ant curator. 

 Department of Birds Eggs, Charles E. Bendire, U. S. A., honorary curator. 

 VI. Department of Reptiles and Batrachians, H. C. Yarrow, M. D., U. S. A., 



honorary curator. 

 VII. Department of Fishes, Tarleton H. Bean, curator. 

 VIII. Department of Vertebrate Fossils, O. C. Marsh, honorary curator. 

 IX. Department of Mollusks, W. H. Dall, U. S. Geological Survey, honorary cura- 

 tor; R. E. C. Stearns, adjunct curator. 

 X. Department of Insects, C.V. Riley, entomologist of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, honorary curator ; J. B. Smith, assistant curator. 

 XI. Department of Marine Invertebrates, Richard Rathbun, U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion, honorary curator. 

 XII. Department of Comparative Anatomy, F. W. True, civrat#r; F.A.Lucas, as- 

 sistant curator. 

 XIII. Department of Invertebrate Fossils : 



Paleozoic section, C. D. Walcott, U. S. Geological Survey, honorary cura- 

 tor. 

 Mesozoic section, C. A. White, U. S. Geological Survey, honorary curator. 

 Cenozoic section, W. H. Dall, U. S. Geological Survey, honorary curator. 



DIVISION OP BOTANY. 



XVI. Department of Fossil Plants, Lester F.Ward, U. S. Geological Survey, hono- 

 rary curator ; F. H. Knowlbon, assistant curator. 

 XV. Department of Recent Plants, Lester F. Ward, U. S. Geological Survey, hono- 

 rary curator ; F. H. Knowlton, assistant curator. 



DIVISION OP GEOLOGY. 



XVI. Department of Miueralogy, F. W. Clarke, chief chemist U, S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, honorary curator ; William S. Yeates, assistant curator. 

 XVII. Department of Lithology and Physical Geology, George P, Merrill, ourator. 

 XVIII. Department of Metallurgy and Ecouomic Geology, Fred. P. Dewey, curator. 



