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enemy countries, fully representing the uniform worn by officers and 

 enlisted men of the following countries and the colonial possessions 

 of each: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Austria, 

 Germany, and Turkey, the individual personal equipment of officers 

 and men being included with the uniform in each case. This series 

 forms a marvelously complete collection and will be a priceless 

 source of information for historical purposes. 



The Medical Department completed the extensive series begun last 

 year of objects illustrating the work of that branch of the United 

 States Army, including field equipment, base hospital equipment and 

 apparatus especially that intended for overseas service. In the three 

 rooms and a part of the foyer on the ground floor assigned to this 

 purpose were duly installed this year under the supervision of Mr, 

 F. L. Lewton, the 4.000 specimens in this collection. The field equip- 

 ment included first aid kit and emergency belt worn by all enlisted 

 men in the Medical Corps, field operating table, instruments, dress- 

 ings, and other supplies, complete portable dental outfit, emergency 

 dental outfit for carrying in hand, field kitchen, portable disinfector, 

 water-sterilizing outfit, and portable steam sterilizer, litters, ambu- 

 lances, etc. The base hospital material, for exhibition, was grouped 

 as follows : The X-ray laboratory, showing all important fixed and 

 movable types of X-ray equipment ; the hospital ward of three beds 

 with various equipment : general operating room of a military hos- 

 pital; anesthesia room; eye, ear. and throat clinic; fracture room; 

 dental clinic; sterilizing room ; bacteriological laboratory: serological 

 laboratory, pathological laboratory, and chemical laboratory. This 

 exhibit was opened to the public on March 1, 1920. 



The pictorial material of the War Collections was increased by a 

 series of nearly five hundred drawings and paintings by the official 

 artists of the American Expeditionary Forces, namely: W. J. Ayl- 

 ward, W. J. Duncan, Harvey Dunn, George Harding, W. Morgan, 

 E. Peixotto, J. A. Smith, and Harry Townsend, received from the 

 War Department. These pictures were installed in rooms 45, 46, 

 and 47 of the Natural History Building, most of them being hung 

 on the walls in their original frames, but the smaller ones were re- 

 moved and placed in the Museum standard wing frames. These 

 rooms were opened to the public on May 28. 



To the numismatic section of the War Collections was added a 

 collection of representative war decorations and medals of Great 

 Britain, France. Italy, Germany, Austria, and Turkey, and a series 

 of bronze and silver commemorative medals issued by Belgium, 

 France, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Italy, Montenegro, Rou- 

 mnnia, Russia, and Serbia in commemoration of notable events dur- 

 ing the war. 



