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that the Myers Amendment, or a measure of equivalent pur- 

 port, shall be adopted by the Sixty-sixth Congress.* 



WAR SERVICE OF STAFF 



When war seemed imminent, the scientific staff of the Mu- 

 seum organized for service, the older men for scientific work 

 along various lines, the younger men for actual enlist- 



National men t the women for cooperation with the Red Cross 

 Service r 



and Hospital Supply Service. 



The Museum has an honor roll of thirty-three employees in 

 active service, including a number who have graduated from 

 the Plattsburg camps. 



Mr. Henry P. Davison, the Treasurer of the Museum, was 

 appointed Chairman of the Red Cross War Council by Presi- 

 dent Wilson, and has rendered distinguished service to this 

 country ; Dr. Bashf ord Dean, Curator Emeritus of the Depart- 

 ment of Ichthyology and Herpetology, was appointed Major in 

 the Bureau of Ordnance, and his expert knowledge of armor is 

 yielding important results ; Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Curator of 

 Ornithology, has left the Museum for the present, to 

 serve as Director of the Bureau of Publications of the Ameri- 

 can Red Cross; Dr. Henry E. Crampton, Curator of the De- 

 partment of Invertebrate Zoology, served as organizer and 

 later as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Engineering and 

 Education of the Advisory Commission of the Council of Na- 

 tional Defense, since its formation thirteen months ago ; Cura- 

 tor Winslow was a member of the American Red Cross Mis- 

 sion to Russia, of which Dr. Frank Billings was the Chairman ; 

 Captain Barrington Moore, Associate Curator of the Depart- 

 ment of Woods and Forestry, went to France last June and is 

 head of one of the forestry divisions of the American ser- 

 vice in France ; Dr. Thomas G. Hull, of the Department of Pub- 

 lic Health, has been called to Washington as Chief of the Divi- 

 sion of Exhibits of the United States Food Administration. 



The women organized into the American Museum War Re- 



* "The strongest possible pressure should be brought to bear upon the Congress 

 to take similar action now and to exempt, without delay, from the operation of the 

 federal estate tax law, legacies and bequests to educational, philanthropic, and re- 

 ligious institutions." {Annual Report of President Butler, Columbia University in 

 the City of New York, for 1916-1917.) 



