HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 
George 
Herbert 
Sherwood, 
A.B., A.M. 
1901- 
J. E. Duer- 
den, Ph.D. 
1902-1906. 
B. E. Dahl- 
gren, D.M.D. 
1902-1908. 
Roy W. 
Miner, A.B. 
1905- 
Frank E. 
Lutz. A.B., 
A.M., Ph.D. 
1909- 
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 
intimate relation between the Museum and the educational system 
of the City. This included the development of the circulating col- 
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 Pubhc Instruction. In 1906 he was 
appointed Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. 
Dr. J. E. Duerden was identified with the Museum as Honorary 
Curator of Coelenterates from 1902 until 1906. He has contributed 
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 
of the Department of Preparation and Installation when it was es- 
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 1908. 
Mr. Roy W. Miner has been associated with the Museum since 
1905 as Assistant Curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology. 
He has given special attention to the installation of the collections 
on exhibition and is carrying on researches on the sponges and myria- 
pods. 
Dr. Frank E. Lutz was appointed Assistant Curator in this Depart- 
ment in 1909. Dr. Lutz has been a research assistant in the Carnegie 
Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, and has pubUshed a 
number of papers on the general subjects of Inheritance and Variation. 
Other speciahsts 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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