ANTHROPOLOGY 
North Pacific Expedition, and was himself a member of several ex- 
peditions. 
Professor Marshall H. Saville was appointed Assistant Curator when JJq"^^" 
the Department was reorganized in 1894. He served as Assistant Cura- saviUe, 
tor of the Archseological Division from 1896 until 1901, when he was ap- 
pointed Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology, and 
Associate Curator of Archaeology from 1905 until he resigned early in 
1907. He continued to serve the Museum as Honorary Curator of 
Mexican Archaeology until 1909. While connected with the Museum, 
he spent several years exploring and collecting in Mexico. 
In 1905 all the anthropological work was placed under one head, and 
Dr. Clark Wissler was appointed Acting Curator. The following year he c^^rk Wissier. 
was promoted to the Curatorship, which position he now holds. Dr. 
Wissler had previously served the Museum as an Assistant and later as 
Assistant Curator in the Department of Ethnology. His researches 
have been chiefly among the North American Indians, especially the 
tribes of the Northern Plains, and on anthropometric problems. 
In 1909 the scientific staff was augmented by the appointment of Dr. 
PUny E. Goddard as Assistant Curator. Dr. Goddard was formerly en- P- E.Goddard, 
1909- 
gaged in anthropological work for the University of California, making 
a special study of Athapascan speaking peoples. 
Mr. Harlan I. Smith has been connected with the department since Harian i. 
1894, and in 1900 was appointed Assistant Curator of Archaeology. Mr. 1894-.' 
Smith has specialized in North American archaeology, and as a member 
of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition made extensive archaeological 
explorations in British Columbia and later in several of the Western 
States. 
In 1903 Dr. Livingston Farrand was appointed Assistant Curator of Livingston 
Ethnology and served for two years, when he resigned to accept a posi- f8*9"^i904 
tion as Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Study 
and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Dr. Farrand at various times since 
1897 had carried on field work for the Museum in the West. 
Robert H. 
Dr. Robert H. Lowie and Dr. Herbert J. Spinden were appointed Lowie, 1909- 
Assistant Curators in 1909. "plnden 1909- 
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