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The Academy has not had available the funds really neces- 

 sary for the proper grov/th of the library, nevertheless the 

 accessions have numbered about 400 complete volumes and 

 several hundred pamphlets. 



THE ACADEMY AND THE WAR 



Many members of the Academy, including several of the 

 Museum staff, were active in war work of one kind or an- 

 other. The Academy's service flag contains 17 stars. Men- 

 tion should first be made of those who were in actual war 

 service. The list includes the follov/ing: 



Albert L. Barrows. Entered Officers Training Camp May, 1917; commis- 

 sioned in August First Lieutenant, Cavalry ; at Camp Lewis in August 

 given commission First Lieutenant, Infantry; was made Adjutant of 

 the 347th Machine Gun Brigade; embarked for France July, 1918; still 

 in France. 



Charles L. Camp, First Lieutenant, Field Artillery, American Expedition- 

 ary Forces, France. 



Charles T. Crocker, Chief Petty Officers January 5, 1918. Commissioned 

 as Ensign, January 13, 1919. Detailed to the Naval Communication 

 Service in Third Naval District, in Office of Cable Censorship. Still 

 in active Service. 



William Weller Curtner. Entered the service October 14, 1918; sent to 

 Vancouver Barracks, Washington; placed in the 15th Casual Deten- 

 tion Company of the Spruce Production Division. Honorably Dis- 

 charged December 13, 1918. 



Merle Israelsky, Aid Department of Paleontology, California Naval Unit, 

 October 11 to December 21, 1918. 



Charles A. Kofoid, Major, Sanitary Corps, National Army, January, 1918. 

 Still in service. 



Norman B. Livermore. Entered U. S. Army Service September 2, 1917. 

 In October, 1917, commissioned as Captain of Engineers and sent to 

 France. In France during the close of 1917 and entire year of 1918. 

 Promoted to Major in the fall of 1918. Discharged about the middle 

 of January, 1919, in the United States. 



Wayne F. Loel. Enlisted June 29, 1918, and assigned to 115th Engineers 

 at Camp Kearny; entered Engineers Officers Training School at Camp 

 A. A. Humphreys September 19, 1918; discharged at Camp Humphreys 

 November 27, 1918. 



Atholl McBean, Director of the Bureau of Personnel, Pacific Division, 

 the American Red Cross, February 1 to April 24, 1918. Deputy Com- 

 missioner of the Switzerland Commission of the American Red Cross, 

 and Director of American Prisoner Relief, April 24 to October 31, 1918. 



