34 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



From July, 1918, to the middle of April, 1919, Mr. Douglas Stewart, 

 who has long been associated with the Director of the Carnegie 

 Museum as an administrative assistant, and also has discharged the 

 functions of the Curatorship of Mineralogy, and taken charge of the 

 collections in several of the other sections, was absent from Pitts- 

 burgh. Mr. Stewart had volunteered his services to the American 

 Red Cross in Washington, and there was occupied in the work of the 

 Bureau of Prisoners Relief for most of his time. Letters testifying 

 in unqualified terms to the value of his services in this connection, 

 and to the gratitude of the Officers of the American Red Cross for 

 the kindness of the Trustees of the Carnegie Institute in having al- 

 lowed him to undertake the work have been received, and are cherished 

 in the archives of the Museum. 



Mr. O. J. MuRiE, who at the time the United States entered into 

 the war, was assistant curator of the collections of mammals in our 

 possession, was called to the colors, and entered the Aviation Service. 

 It was not his privilege to be called into duty across seas, and he has 

 recently been honorably discharged. He writes that it is his 

 present intention not to devote himself to curatorial duties, as he 

 prefers life in the open, and he has made arrangements to undertake 

 the breeding of fur-bearing animals in the Northwest, in association 

 with his brothers. 



Mr. John Link, who entered an Ofificers Training Camp in June, 

 1918, to better qualify himself for military service, was in the fall of 

 the year discharged because of a minor physical defect, and imme- 

 diately returned to his post at the Museum. 



Since the last number of the Annals of the Museum was issued, 

 the hand of death has removed from us a number of those whose 

 services to the institution have made their connection with it memor- 

 able. On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1918, IMonsignor A. A. 

 Lambing passed away, full of years and honors. He was one of the 

 original Trustees of the Institute, having been appointed by Mr. 

 Carnegie, had served for a considerable time as a member of the 

 Committee upon the Museum, and almost continuously as Honorary 

 Curator of our Historical Collections. The sudden death from pneu- 

 monia on May 14, 1919, of Mr. Henry J. Heinz, has robbed us of another 



