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The Department contributed a portion of the permanent ex- 

 hibit in the Forestry Hall to the Health Exhibition held at the 



Grand Central Palace, November 14 to 19, under 

 Extra-Mural the auspices of the American Public Health 

 g . Association and the New York City Department 



of Health. The Department of Public Health has 

 cooperated with the Department of Public Education in the 

 preparation of the exhaustive series of lantern slides on dietary 

 hygiene and other aspects of public health which is being pre- 

 pared for the City Department of Education. Demands for 

 loan exhibits on dietary hygiene, and particularly for printed 

 matter, have come from hundreds of enquirers in all parts of the 

 country. Loan exhibits we cannot of course attempt to supply, 

 although pictures of the school exhibit have been sent to points 

 as far distant as Baltimore, Toronto and Minnesota. The 

 demand for guide leaflets embodying the main essentials of our 

 exhibit on dietary hygiene is, however, one that we should be 

 prepared to meet, and it would be most desirable to publish one 

 or more such pamphlets in the near future. 



Curator Winslow was granted leave of absence from February 

 1 to October 1, to serve as General Medical Director of the 



League of Red Cross Societies at Geneva, Switzer- 

 Foreign land. The past year was a crucial one in the 



c history of this organization, which was established 



Winslow on tne initiative of the American Red Cross to 



stimulate and coordinate the work of national Red 

 Cross societies as peace-time health agencies; and the Museum, 

 through Professor Winslow's services, was able to render im- 

 portant aid in its reorganization on a practical and effective 

 basis, aid which will influence the progress of public health edu- 

 cation in many countries. 



During Curator Winslow's stay in Europe, he visited the 

 Museums of Natural History in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, 



Dresden and Geneva and reported on the progress 

 Report on j n M useum technique which has been made in 

 Museum these cities during and since the war. Particular 



attention was paid to the development of exhibits 

 bearing on Public Health, and it is interesting to note that, in 

 London particularly, the tendency in European Museum circles 



