of the Carnegie Museum. At the expiration of the three years of his employment as a field collector it is agreed that the said W. H. Reed shall have the right to accept or reject from the Trustees of the Museum an offer which they shall at that time make to enter into the service of the Museum as a Curator at the annual salary of twelve hundred dollars.

2. The authorities of the Carnegie Museum agree to allow the said Reed fifteen days of vacation for the summer months while in the field in order to take his annual fishing excursion, and should he be called during the next three years to the City of Pittsburgh to work in the Museum he is to be allowed an additional vacation of ten days in order to allow him to visit friends and relatives residing in the East whom he has not seen for many years.

3. It is agreed that the Carnegie Museum shall pay railroad fares and hotel bills of said Reed and assistants and allow for this purpose for the first year of his engagement the sum of fifty dollars. The Trustees of the Carnegie Museum further agree to place in bank at the disposition of said Reed a sum of money sufficient to pay the salary of a boy for two and a half months during the summer of 1899 at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, and to pay the salary of two assistants at fifty dollars a month for such time as they may be needed; and said Reed agrees to keep a full account of the time of said assistants and to account to the Trustees for the money expended, accompanying his statement with the receipts duly signed given him by his said assistants, returning to the Director of the Museum any unexpended balances of the money placed at his disposition in order to pay assistants.

4. It is agreed that the authorities of the Carnegie Museum shall pay for tools, lumber for boxes, plaster, packing materials, and freight