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capital a national peace tower and the largest and finest carillon that 

 the most expert bell founders of the world can provide, as a tribute 

 to the heroic resistance of Belgium, in recollection of our dead and 

 those oi our allies and in enduring commemoration of the great vic- 

 tory won over imperialism. 



This exhibition consisted of about two hundred and fifty items, all 

 told, including the Jan Baes collection of Belgian Towers, fifty in num- 

 ber, and photographs of Belgian scenes and of Spanish towers, all 

 loaned by the Library of Congress ; twenty-four Sketches, etchings and 

 prints intimately connected with the carillons of Belgium andHolland, 

 loaned by Mr. William Gorham Kice ; twenty-six large etchings and 

 prints loaned by Mr, S. J. Venable; thirteen sketches by Mr. L. M. 

 Leisenring; a number Qf tower pictures loaned by Trinity Church, 

 and a large number of photographs and small prints loaned by Dr. 

 Erwin F. Smith. Included in the exhibiton were also a considerable 

 number of photographs of modern chime and carillon bells, loaned 

 by Mr. J. Marion Shull, and a photostat reproduction contributed by 

 Mr. Grant Leet, showing the programs of the Denyn concerts at 

 Malines during the summer of 1919. 



An exhibiton of drawings, photographs and paintings illustrating 

 the activities of the Air Service of the United States Army at the 

 front and in America was opened to the public at 2.30 p. m. on 

 October 4, 1919, and closed at 4.30 p. m. on October 29, 1919. The 

 eastern portion of the west north range, ground floor. Natural His- 

 tory Building, was assigned to Captain Otho Cushing, who was in 

 charge of the exhibit, and the pictures were hung on the south wall 

 of the range and attached to floor screens. 



ORGANIZATION AND STAFF. 



The Congressional appropriations for the maintenance of the 

 Museum remaining stationary for many years has prevented any 

 general advancement of salaries, though greatly needed, and the 

 Museum has not only been unable to add even a few of the experts 

 needed to assist in the classification of specimens in the recently 

 organized department of arts and industries as well as in the long- 

 estiiblishecl natural history departments, but has lost many of its 

 former trained workers. The crowded conditions and lack of suffi- 

 cient experts in the division of insects, for instance, has recently 

 led the Entomological Society of America and the American Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists to appoint a committee to pro- 

 mote the adequate development of the National Museum so far as 

 the collection of insects are concerned. And what is true as to con- 

 ditions in the division of insects is equally true elsewhere throughout 

 the Museum. 



