INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 



Mr. G. H. Sherwood was appointed Assistant Curator of Inverte- 

 brate Zoology in November, 1901. During the curatorship of Dr. 

 Bumpus he attended to the routine work of the Department, but par- 

 ticularly carried out the idea of the Director for bringing about a more Geor Re 

 intimate relation between the Museum and the educational system Herbert 



J Sherwood, 



of the City. This included the development of the circulating col- a.b., a.m. 

 lections which was begun in December, 1903, and the inauguration 

 of the lectures for school children. With the retiring of Professor 

 Bickmore from active service in 1905, Mr. Sherwood was appointed 

 Curator of the Department of Public Instruction. In 1906 he was 

 appointed Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. 



Dr. J. E. Duerden was identified with the Museum as Honorary j. e. Duer- 

 Curator of Ccelenterates from 1902 until 1906. He has contributed ^ ™ o °/ 

 several papers to the Bulletin. 



Dr. B. E. Dahlgren joined the Museum in 1902 as an Assistant in 

 the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. He was appointed Curator b. e. Dahi- 

 of the Department of Preparation and Installation when it was es- fq^'- ^ ° 

 tablished at the beginning of 1903, and served in this capacity until 

 1906, when he was appointed an Assistant Curator of the Department 

 of Invertebrate Zoology. Dr. Dahlgren was especially interested in 

 the preparation of biological models. He served till 1909. 



Mr. Roy W. Miner has been associated with the Museum since 

 1905 as Assistant Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. Roy w. 

 He has given special attention to the installation of the collections Jr?"' AB ' 

 on exhibition and is carrying on researches on the sponges and myria- 

 pods. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz was appointed Assistant Curator in this Depart- Frank E 

 ment in 1909. Dr. Lutz has been a research assistant in the Carnegie Lutz * AB - 



& A.M., Ph.D. 



Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and has published a 1909- 

 nymber of papers on the general subjects of Inheritance and Variation. 

 Other specialists who have served the Museum through this Depart- 

 ment are Professor Verrill, who was engaged in 1894 to identify un- 

 determined invertebrate material; Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, who iden- 

 tified and catalogued the fishes received from the Aquarium in 1898; 



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