36 Report of the President 



The following are the new appointments: 



G. Clyde Fisher, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, Department 



of Public Education. 

 Daniel Moore Fisk, B.S., Assistant in Invertebrate 

 Zoology. 



The following were the resignations during the year: 



Rudolph M. Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant in Mammalogy. 

 Daniel Moore Fisk, Assistant in Invertebrate Zoology. 



I. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 



Frederic A. Lucas, Director 



Perhaps the most important feature of the year has been 

 the success of the various expeditions, discussed at length by 

 G , the President, which have brought to the 



Considerations Museum man y desirable specimens from 

 various parts of the world. 



In the Museum continued progress has been made in caring 

 for the study series and improving the arrangement of the 

 exhibits. 



The Local Bird Collection has been removed to the second 

 floor, near the systematic series of birds, the cases made over 

 and the attractiveness and usefulness of the series enhanced by 

 the inclusion of a large number of the small groups until now 

 displayed in the Primate Hall. The collection of the 

 Department of Public Health has been placed on the third 

 floor and is one of the few that is systematically and uniformly 

 cased and labeled. 



The Forestry Hall has been opened in its entirety and the 

 Shell Hall is the only one now closed. It had been planned to 

 open a portion of this hall during 1913, but the rearrangement 

 has proceeded so rapidly that it has seemed best to wait until 

 its completion and open the entire hall in 1914. 



The Visitors' Room, opened on January 3, has proved a 

 great convenience to the public, and is used by nearly one 

 thousand people monthly. The greatest number of publica- 

 tions, however, is sold in the corridor near the elevator. 



