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Ann E. Thomas. It is due to the "team work" of all members 

 of the department staff that so much has been accomplished 

 at relatively small expense. 



GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY AND PAST LIFE 

 ON THE EARTH * 



Edmund Otis Hovey, Curator 



At the end of last year Dr. Chester A. Reeds, who had been 

 Assistant Curator since the middle of 1912, was promoted to 



be Associate Curator of Invertebrate Palaeon- 

 in h St n a ff S tology. In May, Mr. P. B. Hill enlisted in the 



army and Mr. E. J. Foyles was inducted therein 

 through the draft. These temporary vacancies were rilled by 

 the appointment of Messrs. A. Latzko and J. C. Creley. 



In August Dr. Carlotta J. Maury began work upon the 



Pelecypoda of our collections. She has devoted years to the 



study of the fossil pelecypods of this country, 



Expert Europe, South Africa and South America, and 



Assistants . r ' . . ' 



is regarded as an expert in them, especially those 



of the more recent geological periods. In September Dr. Mar- 

 jorie O'Connell, who is likewise an expert in invertebrate 

 palaeontology, particularly in the forms occurring in the older 

 geological periods, renewed her connection with the depart- 

 ment. Dr. Arthur Hollick, the palaeontologist, has begun the 

 revision of our collection of fossil plants and the selection and 

 arrangement of an exhibition series. Such expert assistance 

 is of the highest value to the Museum. Dr. Elvira Wood has 

 been engaged upon enlarged models of trilobites. 



When Dr. Reeds was advanced to the associate curatorship, 

 he was given charge of the collections of invertebrate palaeon- 

 tology, and a subdivision of the exhibition hall 

 Exhibition was instituted, so that reorganization of the dis- 

 play material could be effected along the lines 

 set forth in his suggested plan dated August 1, 19 17. The 



* Under the Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology (see also 

 pages 182 and 183). 



