Entomological loorkers, U. S. National Museum, May 21, 1925. Number 8 is L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology. Of the twenty-eight people shown, apparoitly none was paid by the Museum. 



Merriam never got on well with Congress or with 

 most of his subordinates, and in 1910 he retired. When 

 the new Museum building was occupied, the Biological 

 Survey ornithologists moved to the third floor of the 

 north wing and the mammalogists to the west range on 

 the ground floor. The collections of the Biological Sur- 

 vey since its inception had been stored in the Museum, 

 but were maintained as a separate series until the 1940s. 



The major objectives of the Biological Survey were 

 changed. Studies of bird-insect relationships were dis- 

 continued. Game management and predator control 

 became more important, and the taxonomic work re- 

 ceived less emphasis. Like the Fish Commission, the 

 Biological Survey changed in name and moved from 

 one government department to another. However, tax- 

 onomy still has its place; today the U.S. Fish and Wild- 

 life Service of the Department of the Interior includes 

 a Museum section to support such work at the Museum 

 of Natural History." It is administered out of Denver, 

 but that is hardly more illogical than administering the 

 systematic entomologists from a Beltsville, Maryland, 

 office, or the Commerce Department taxonomists from 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 



If other agencies did not mention having employees 

 in the Museum, the annual reports of the National 

 Museum, by the same token, almost never mentioned 



the activities of others in the building, except the mu- 

 seum work of those who were honorary staff members. 

 There seems to be no written agreement that the Mu- 

 seum would provide space for these other scientists, 

 yet the arrangement has worked well for more than a 

 century. Washington bureaucracy is replete with fights 

 over turf and office space, btit one cannot tell from the 

 size, location, or quality of an individual Museum office 

 who works for which federal agency. 



Bureau of Ethnology 



Although the Bureau of Ethnology was under the 

 Smithsonian Institution, it functioned independently, 

 and never had employees in the new Natural History 

 Building. Fotmded in 1877, it flourished for some years 

 in the Adams Building on F Street, NW, just across 

 from the Geological Survey. Offices became available 

 in the Castle as a result of transfers to the new Museum 

 building, and in 1910 the bureau, which had been re- 

 titled the Bureati of American Ethnology (BAE) in 1894, 

 moved to the Mall. 



Because the bureau had a separate budget and be- 

 cause ethnographic material was popular with Con- 

 gress, many outstanding publications were produced. 

 Perhaps the best known was BAE Bulletin 30, Handbook 

 of American Indians North of Mexico, which was edited by 



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