REPORT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. 45 



Mount od 1 elk-leg trophy. 



Made 5 traps. 



Made 2 groups of small mammals. 



Tacked New Orleans exhibit of mammals, and installed the same, 



the taxidermic exhibit and skeleton exhibit in the New Orleans Ex- 

 position. 



.Mr. Ilenn Marshall has been engaged upon his regular work — that 

 of mounting birds — during (lie whole year. A large number were pre 

 pared for the New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati Expositions. In 



his work he has had the valuable assistance of his SOU, Mr. George 



Marshall. 



(b) Osteological preparator. 



Mr. Lucas has devoted bis time, under the direction of the curator 



of mammals, to the removal of the collection of mounted skeletons from 



the Smithsonian building and its arrangement in the east south range 



of the New .Museum building. The two large whale skeletons have 

 been suspended from the ceiling, and nearly one bundled skeletons, 

 skulls, and other osteological specimens mounted and placed on exhibi- 

 tion. A large number of specimens have been cleaned and rendered 

 available for study. The necessary work of caring for the numerous 

 fresh specimens received has precluded the possibility of devoting very 

 much time to the exhibition series. 



During the summer, while preparations for the Now Orleans Exposi- 

 tion were being most busily carried on, an additional assistant, .). \Y. 

 Scollick, was assigned to this section. 



In November, on account of the low condition of the New Orleans 

 appropriations, it was found necessary to dispense with Mr. McCormick's 

 sen ices. Mr. Scollick was transferred to the Museum roll. 



(a) Modelers. 

 Mr, Joseph Palmer has been engaged in his usual work of making 



casts. He b as prepared for exhibition and set up in the Museum the 



plaster casts of George Washington, Benjamin Silliman, and also the 



bronzed plaster cast representing an Indian group. Several casts of 

 fishes, Indian pipes, reptiles, &c, were prepared by him for the New 



Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati Expositions. Two large casts, one 

 of the spiny shark and one of the sperm whale porpoise, have been 

 made with the assistance of .Mr. William Palmer, who also rendered 



valuable service in unpacking, setting up, and repacking the collections 

 see* to the Louisville and Cincinnati Expositions. 



.Mr. J. \Y. Ilendley has made progress in the preparation of casts of 

 animal and vegetable foods. It is intended that these casts shall be 



exhibited in the Department of Foods, accompanied by a statement of 

 the chemical composition of the objects which they represent. 



