TRANSFER FROM THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 10 THE 
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
,-, On June 10, 1909, I severed my official connection 
fo cru 
with the Bureau of American Ethnology in order to resume. 
my former place as Head Curator of Anthropology in: the 
National Museum. On the same date, Mr. F. W. Hodge, 
Editor of the Bureau, was promoted to the position thus 
made vacant, as Ethnologist-in-Charge. 
| Owing to the assumption of the new duties and the 
obligation to carry to completion the various partially 
finished undertakings of the Burean, I found it impossible 
to give any considerable attention to field research during 
the remainder of 1909. During this period good progress, 
however, was made in the preparation of the Handbook of 
American Archeology to which I had devotea much attention 
during previous years. | 
This was my second Head Curatorial period in the 
Museum and extended from 1910 to 1920. It was devoted 
mainly to Anthropology in its several branches, Ethnology, 
Physical Anthropology, Archeology, Technology and History. 
Perhaps the most noteworthy event in this period was the 
separation of the art collections as an independent divi- 
Sion of the Museum, to be known as the National Gallery of 
Art. This occurred in 1910, and is fully recorded in 
the report for that year. 
