persons. This figure, combined with the aggregate attendance at 

 his previous lectures since his first appearance on October 3, 1937, 

 makes a total of 19,403. 



Mr. Dallwig also continued lecturing on Museum subjects before 

 the members of various clubs, societies, and other organizations both 

 in and outside of Chicago, thus bringing further widespread atten- 

 tion to this institution's activities. 



Personnel Changes . . . 



Twenty-nine Trustees, employees, and volunteer associates in 

 the armed forces of the United States, and other war services, were 

 listed in the 1942 Annual Report; nine more left for government 

 service during 1943. 



Mr. Loren P. Woods, Assistant Curator of Fishes, was commis- 

 sioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve, shortly after taking full 

 charge of the Division of Fishes owing to the retirement of the 

 curator. Following his departure for naval duty, Mrs. Marion Grey, 

 Associate in Fishes, took temporary charge of the division. 



Mr. Bryan Patterson, Curator of Paleontology, was inducted 

 into the Army in October. Dr. Paul 0. McGrew, Assistant Curator, 

 is in temporary charge of the division. 



Miss Elizabeth Best and Miss Marie B. Pabst, both lecturers 

 on the staff of the Raymond Foundation, enlisted in the WAVES, 

 Women's Auxiliary of the United States Navy. Miss Best was 

 commissioned an Ensign and is the first woman member of the 

 Museum staff to achieve officer status. 



Others entering military service during the year were: Henry S. 

 Dybas, Assistant in Entomology, now a private in the Army; Herbert 

 Nelson, member of the Museum's maintenance force, now a painter 

 first class in the Navy; Mr. Frank Dutkovic, janitor, private in the 

 Army, and Mr. Raymond J. Connors, guard, also an Army private. 



Dr. C. Martin Wilbur, Curator of Chinese Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, joined the staff of the Office of Strategic Services at 

 Washington. 



Mr. Bert E. Grove, Raymond Foundation guide-lecturer, who 

 served in Africa as an ambulance driver with the American Field 

 Service for a year, was wounded in action and returned to this 

 country, whereupon he rejoined the Museum staff. Shortly there- 

 after he was inducted into the United States Army, but after a few 

 months was given an honorable discharge for medical causes due 



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