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lief Association and allied themselves with the Red Cross and 

 Navy League, turning out an average of fifty garments, one 

 hundred knitted articles, and two thousand surgical dressings 

 each month, and support a "Soldiers' Aid Committee/' which 

 supplies comfort kits and other gifts to the soldiers and officers 

 who have enlisted from the Museum. 



The Department of Public Health, under Curator Charles- 

 Edward Amory Winslow, immediately began to arrange a 

 special exhibition on food values and economies and to prepare 

 a fifty-page handbook entitled "Health in War and Peace." 

 The exhibition was first made in the American Museum, then 

 in the Washington Irving High School and in the College 

 of the City of New York. In all these institutions it has 

 been used for practical intensive teaching purposes. The 

 Health Department of the Museum, in cooperation with the 

 departments of Mammals and Fishes, has advocated and listed 

 various unutilized foods, such as seaweeds, marine mollusks, 

 sharks and other unutilized food fishes, also whales and seals 

 among marine mammals. 



The Department of Public Education, in cooperation with 

 the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A., has pre- 

 pared a series of lectures accompanied by thousands of slides 

 and many reels of motion picture films, for service among the 

 allied troops at home and abroad. 



The Department of Anthropology has been active in innovat- 

 ing and spreading the Mandan corn movement, a variety of 

 corn adapted to extremely arid and elevated regions, which will 

 result in greatly increasing the corn growing area of the United 

 States, inasmuch as it will promote the cultivation of varieties 

 of Mandan corn in localities where it has been found impossible 

 to raise ordinary types of corn. This department has also been 

 in cooperation with the Department of Mammals in an effort 

 to provide proper clothing designed for aviation service, by 

 submitting for Government inspection various fur and skin 

 samples and garments made by the Eskimo in the arctic region. 



At the beginning of the war a chemical exhibition was 

 brought together and installed under the energetic direction of 

 Dr. George F. Kunz, for the purpose of showing the progress 

 in industrial chemistry made by this country and of encour- 



