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is to expand along the line of exhibits dealing with insects and 



disease, and with the hygiene of the diet, exactly as we have 



been doing in New York. 



In the last Annual Report, reference was made to the plan, 



which we have for some years entertained, of a comprehensive 



exhibit dealing with the Natural History of Man, 



Plans for the life history and environment of the human 



Exhibit of animal, the dangers which beset him and the 



e a ur methods by which his health and efficiency may be 

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I^ an maintained and exalted. As a result of his studies 



of the Museums of Europe, and particularly the 

 remarkable Hygiene Museum at Dresden, Curator Winslow has 

 prepared an outline of a comprehensive exhibit of this kind, to 

 be worked out in cooperation with the Departments of Physi- 

 ology, Lower Invertebrates and Entomology of the American 

 Museum, presented in a special report made last autumn to the 

 Board of Trustees by a committee consisting of Dr. Walter B. 

 James and Mr. Felix M. Warburg. The exhibit as projected 

 includes fifteen sections, of which three, dealing with Dietary 

 Hygiene, Water Supply and Waste Disposal, and Insects and 

 Diseases, are now well on toward completion. It is to be hoped 

 that, in connection with the plans for the School Service Build- 

 ing, resources may be found for carrying this plan forward. It 

 will be necessary, however, if such an ideal is to be realized, to 

 increase materially the personnel of the Department of Public 

 Health. At present the entire work of organizing exhibit 

 material is being carried on by a single part-time assistant, and 

 two full-time assistants must be provided if substantial progress 

 is to be realized. 



