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slow to avail itself of new opportunities for learning how to 

 extend the crops of its war gardens. The Mandan Corn 

 movement started by the Museum in 191 7 continued to 

 gain in strength. The luncheon given by the President to 

 demonstrate the food value of whale meat was nation-wide in 

 its influence. 



At the time of the signing of the Armistice, November 11, 

 19 1 8, the Museum's Honor Roll numbered sixty-eight names, 

 and included all branches of military and naval 

 Museum service, also the Red Cross and other activities. 



Service The record of these enrolled men, whether floor 



attendants, preparators, scientific staff members 

 or trustees, is without exception one of which the Museum 

 is justly proud. 



Conspicuous service was rendered the cause by our Treas- 

 urer, Mr. H. P. Davison, as Chairman of the Red Cross War 

 Council ; by Dr. Frank M. Chapman, as Director of the Bureau 

 of Publications of the American Red Cross, and later as Red 

 Cross Commissioner to South America ; by Dr. Bashf ord Dean 

 as Major in Ordnance; by Dr. Henry E. Crampton as Vice- 

 Chairman of the Committee on Engineering and Education of 

 the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense ; 

 by Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow as member of the American Red 

 Cross Mission to Russia; by Major Barrington Moore in the 

 Forestry Service in France ; and by Messrs. Andrews, Anthony, 

 Akeley, Brown, Chapin, Cherrie, Eastman, Fabbri, Hull, 

 Miller, Spinden and Sullivan. 



We are equally proud of the service of the men of the ranks. 

 All honor to Sergeant Charles A. Connolly, the only member 

 of the Museum family who paid the great price for victory. 

 His grave, near Chateau-Thierry, is to be marked with a grove 

 of fruit trees, to be planted by the Museum. Our heartiest wel- 

 come goes out to those who are returning, especially to Chris 

 Schroth, who brings back the Croix de Guerre, to John O'Neill, 

 Albert J. Kelly, Benjamin F. Connolly, Arthur W. Henn, 

 Joseph S. McGarty and Laurence Ferri, all bearing honor 

 wounds. Throughout the period of the war, the Trustees have 

 paid to these employees the difference between the Federal 



