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of the state of all those institutions lielpiuy 

 along such lines. 



At the close of this address, the audience 

 was invited to inspect the display in Me- 

 morial Hall, prepared under the supervision 

 of Dr. C-E. A. Winslow, curator of the de- 

 partment of public health in the Museiun, 

 with the assistance of Dr. T. G. Hull, and 

 arranged for the purpose of suggesting to 

 the general public various ways and means 

 by which it may have good food at as low a 

 cost as possible. 



In connection with the health and food ex- 

 hibits at the American Museum there has 

 been issued by the Museum departments of 

 public health and public education a fifty- 

 page Handbool: of Health in War and 

 Peace by Dr. C-E. A. WinsloAv. It deals 

 with the problems of personal preparedness 

 in the matters of health, cleanliness, and 

 food. In a foreword Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn says : "There has never been a 

 period in American history when diffusion of 

 knowledge of the laws of nature was a more 

 immediate and a more imperative duty than 

 at the present time. Himdreds of thousands 

 of young men and young women are ready 

 to offer their services and, if need be, their 

 lives. . . . But let not a single life be lost 

 needlessly. Let no constitution be broken by 

 disease through ignorance. The patriotic op- 

 portunity of all men of science is to spread 

 the truth, and to spread it as quickly as pos- 

 sible. Let us speak plainly of all the dangers 

 and enemies which surround the soldier and 

 sailor, of those that kill the soul as well as 

 those which destroy the body. The loss to 

 the world of the finest strains of manhood is 

 the most awful curse of the many curses at- 

 tending war. ... It is a scientific, no less 

 than a religious principle, that to serve one's 

 country one must be sound in body, sound in 

 mind, and sound in spirit." 



The American Museum is beginning to 

 feel the effects of the war in the loss of 

 some of the members of its working force. 

 Mr. Barrington Moore, associate curator of 

 Avoods and forestry, Mr. Carlos D. Empie, 

 assistant in the mammalogy department, and 

 Mr. Charles Camp, assistant in vertebrate 

 palaeontology, have been called to Platts- 

 burg for military service. Mr. Moore has 

 since gone to France in a forestry regiment. 

 Mr. James P. Chapin, assistant in orni- 

 thology, also responded to the first call for 

 volunteers, but Avas obliged to return, tem- 



jioiarily, owing to the reappearance of a 

 physical disability contracted through six 

 years' residence in the Congo region in the 

 service of the American Museum. Mr. Karl 

 P. Schmidt, assistant in herpetology,has gone 

 to engage in patriotic work as a member of 

 the New York State Food Commission with 

 headquarters at Ithaca. Mr. Laurence Ferri, 

 of the Seventy-first Regiment of the National 

 Guard, has already joined his regiment 

 "somewhere in New York State"; Mr. John 

 J. Finn entered a cavalry regiment on the 

 1st of May; Mr. Charles Schroth and Mr. 

 Charles Connelly, both of the Sixty-ninth 

 Eegiment, Mr. Henry Ruof, of the 1st Artil- 

 lery Regiment, and Mr. Albert J. Kelly, of 

 the 12th Infantry, Avill go out on July 15. 



At the request of General George T. M. 

 Bridges, of the British Commission, a "for- 

 estry regiment" is being sent to France from 

 this country to supply for the army of the 

 Allies the timbers necessary in the construc- 

 tion of trenches, dugouts, bridges, and rail- 

 roads. Vast quantities of wood are consumed 

 for these purposes, the demand being so 

 urgent that men have been taken from the 

 firing line to assist in procuring it. In 

 England, Avhere the greater part of the 

 Avood used has thus far been obtained, the 

 Avork has been in the hands of Canadian bat- 

 talions, as many as 75,000 men having been 

 engaged in it. One sawmill to a company 

 has been employed, together Avith donkey 

 engines and railroads, after the usual Pacific 

 Coast custom. Whether the English forests 

 are becoming exhausted, or the shipping 

 facilities are lacking, is not knoAvn, but the 

 supply seems to have given out, and France 

 is noAV offering her forests to be cut. These 

 haA'e hitherto been untouched, perhaps be- 

 cause they Avere deemed necessary for mili- 

 tary purposes, in the AA-ay of screening artil- 

 lery, for instance, and noAv that they must 

 be used, it is the desire of the government 

 that the Avork be carried on under the direc- 

 tion of trained foresters. 



The forestry regiment is under the com- 

 mand of W. B. Greeley, Avho has been in 

 charge of the silviculture of this country 

 for a number of years and is one of the 

 ablest men in the United States Forest Ser- 

 vice. There are three majors and three staff 

 ca} (tains, each of the latter in charge of a 

 different line of Avork. Each company of 

 the regiment will be a complete Avorking 

 unit in itself, able to handle the Avhole Avork 



