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sailed in October, 1889, on the U. S. S. Pensacola. A reference to Mr. 

 Brown's explorations will be found in the chapter devoted to that 

 subject. 



On account of the increasing administrative duties which have been 

 placed upon Mr. Richard Eathbun, of the U. S. Fish Commission, it has 

 been found impossible to keep up the current work in the Department 

 of Marine Invertebrates. It tberefore seemed desirable to appoint an 

 assistant, paid by the Museum, who could devote his entire time, under 

 the supervision of Mr. Eathbun, to the work of the department. Mr. 

 James E. Benedict, formerly naturalist of the Fish Commission, who 

 had severed his connection with the Commission in 1880, accepted au 

 appointment on January 13, 1890, as assistant curator of the Depart- 

 ment of Marine Invertebrates. 



At the request of Dr. C. A. White, the director of the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey appointed Mr. T. W. Stanton to assist Dr. White in the 

 work of the Department of Mesozoic Invertebrate Fossils in the Museum. 



There are now thirty-one organized departments and sections in the 

 Museum under the care of curators, iucludiug honorary and acting 

 curators, and assistant curators. 



LIST OF CURATORS, ASSISTANT CURATORS, AND AIDS. 



Arts and Industries: Dr. G. Brown Goode, Honorary Curator. 



Materia Medica : Dr. James M. Flint, U. S. Navy, Honorary Curator. 



Textiles : Mr. Romyn Hitchcock, Acting Curator. 



Animal Products : Mr. R. Edward Earll, Acting Curator. 



Naval Architecture: Capt. J. W. Collins, U. S. Fish Commission, Honorary 



C urator. 

 Foods : Prof. W. O. Atwater, Department of Agriculture, Honorary Curator. 

 Historical Collections, Coins and Medals: Mr. A. Howard Clark, Curator. 

 Transportation and Engineering: Mr. J. E. Watkius, Curator. 

 Oriental Antiquities : Prof. PaulHaupt, Johns Hopkins University, Honorary 



Curator; Dr. Cyrus Adler, Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Curator. 

 Graphic Arts: Mr. S. R. Koehler, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Acting Curator. 

 Forestry : Dr. B. E. Fernow, Department of Agriculture, Honorary Curator. 

 Physical Apparatus : Prof. W. C. Wiulock, Honorary Curator. 

 Ethnology : Prof. Otis T. Mason, Curator; Mr. Walter Hough, Assistant. 

 American Prehistoric Pottery: Mr. William H. Holmes, Bureau of Ethnology, 



Honorary Curator. 

 Prehistoric Anthropology: Dr. Thomas Wilson, Curator; Mr. E. P. Upham, 



Assistant. 

 MammaLs : Mr. Frederick W. True, Curator. 

 Birds : Mr. Robert Ridgway, Curator. 



Birds' Eggs: Capt. C. E. Bendire, U. S, Army, Honorary Curator. 

 Reptiles and Batrachians : Dr. Leonard Stejneger, Curator. 



Fishes : Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, U. S. Fish Commission, Honorary Curator ; Mr. Bar- 

 ton A. Bean, Assistant. 

 Vertebrate Fossils : Prof. O. C. Marsh, Yale College, Honorary Curator. 

 Mollusks: Mr. William H. Dall, U. S. Geological Survey, Honorary Curator; Dr. 



R. E. C. Stearns, Adjunct Curator. 

 Insects: Prof. C. V. Riley, Department of Agriculture, Honorary Curator; Mr. Mar- 

 tin L. Lim'll, Aid. 



