16 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1884. 



7. THE SCIENTIFIC STAFF. 



In the scientific staff of the Museum there are at present nineteen 

 curat orships, some of which are subdivided below, so that the number 

 of heads of departments and sub-departments is twenty-five, and the 

 total number of men in the scientific staff thirty-six, of whom twenty- 

 four are in the pay of the Museum, and the others honorary, five being 

 detailed for this duty by the Director of the United States Geological 

 Survey, one by the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, others by the 

 United States Commissioner of Fisheries, and by the Secretary of the 

 Navy, while two are volunteers. It may be stated here that the de- 

 tails just referred to are in every instance made in the interests of 

 co-operation with those Government bureaus engaged in work closely 

 connected with that of the Museum. The paleontologists of the Geo- 

 logical Survey find it so much to their advantage to have access to 

 the paleontological collections 'of the Museum and the use of the 

 laboratories, storage cases, and general administrative machinery, that 

 they are permitted by their chief to assume the responsibilities of cura- 

 torships and perform a general work of supervision ; and the mineralo- 

 gists and the curator of aboriginal pottery are similarly situated. In 

 nearly every instance, however, the Museum supplies the honorary 

 curators with assistants, who relieve them of much of the routine work. 



The curatorships 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 subcurator- 

 ships as follows: 



(a) Materia Medica. Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. K, honorary curator, 

 with 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. Capt. J. W. Collins, United States Fish Com- 

 mission, honorary curator. 



(/) Foods. W. O. Atwater, acting curator. 



{()) Historical Relics. 



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

 the material, such as is usually arranged by museums in their ethno- 

 logical scries, and the Curator of Ethnology is consequently acting as 

 adjunct curator in the Department of Arts and Industries. 



Department IT. — Ethnology. Dr. Otis T. Mason, curator, with one 

 preparator and two clerks. 



Department 111(A). — Antiquities. Dr. Charles Ran, curator, E. P. 

 Uphani, assistant. 



