REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 15 
Services of the department of anthropology dealt with a wide variety 
of subjects relating to people in the Caribbean islands, Pacific and 
Indonesian areas, Oceania, Micronesia, Burma, Japan, China, the 
Philippine Islands, Central America, Europe, and Africa. The in- 
formation furnished included suggestions for Tropical and Arctic 
clothing, and footgear for aviators, water supply, population, primi- 
tive weapons, house types, degree of western influence, physical char- 
acteristics, and leather products. The collections of the division were 
used in a study of the resources of particular strategic geographical 
areas with a view to conservation of shipping space. Dr. T. Dale 
Stewart was granted a 6-month furlough to teach anatomy to Army 
and Navy medical students at the Washington University School of 
Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Waldo R. Wedel, associate curator 
of archeology, was detailed for special services to the Military Plan- 
ning Division, Office of the Quartermaster General, War Department, 
from September 1943 to March 1944. The division of physical 
anthropology supplied the Office of Strategic Services with photo- 
graphs of various eastern physical types. It also supplied detailed 
data on average body weights of Europeans and various peoples of 
the Far East to the Office of the Quartermaster General. 
In the department of geology, two members of the staff, in coopera- 
tion with the Geological Institute of Mexico, have continued field 
studies in the economic geology of that country as a part of the war 
effort. Curator W. F. Foshag spent the year on detail from the 
Museum in a continuation of the supervision of surveys for strategic 
minerals in Mexico. Dr. G. A. Cooper, similarly, spent 3 months in 
the field in Sonora concluding studies begun last year on the stratified 
rocks. The results, soon to be published, will be useful in the location 
of new mineral areas. Dr. Cooper also concluded field work on the 
project dealing with the subsurface geology of the Devonian rocks 
of Illinois, obtaining information for use in the oil development of 
that and neighboring States. 
Members of the geological staff in the home office have been more 
occupied than ever before in furnishing information to the various 
war agencies. These services have included such diverse items as the 
preparation of analyses, assisting in selecting and grading calcite for 
the War Production and other Boards, editing a scientific volume for 
an allied country, and furnishing information of all kinds to an ever- 
increasing number of service men and women visiting the Museum. 
Other services, especially from the department of engineering and 
industries, have included the following: 
Construction of two demonstration models of new ordnance devices 
for the National Inventors’ Council; transfer of a series of model 
