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at home and abroad. The department has also furnished 

 guides for all soldiers and sailors who desired to be shown 



around the Museum. This service is being ex- 

 Educational tended in connection with the recently established 

 Army "* * Hospitality Room. The Library, in cooperation 



with the American Library Association, sent 

 copies of The American Museum Journal to all encampments 

 in this country, and, through the Publicity Committee, invita- 

 tions to visit the Museum, guides, and other literature have 

 been distributed to the camps and recreation centers in the 

 vicinity of New York City. 



The Museum, through Associate Curator Roy W. Miner of 

 the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, cooperated with Dr. 

 Robert Underwood Johnson, President of the New York Com- 

 mittee of the Italian War Relief Fund of America, in the work 

 of examination, selection, and preparation for shipment of a 

 number of compound microscopes suitable for bacteriological 

 work, to be forwarded to Italy for use in the field hospitals. 



The Food Conservation Exhibit, prepared by the Depart- 

 ment of Public Health, was shown in cooperation with the New 



York State and Federal Food Commissions at the 

 H Ub Mi Grand Central Terminal in April and May. The 



United States Department of Agriculture pro- 

 nounced it the best food exhibit yet prepared, and it has been 

 studied and copied by food educators from widely separated 

 localities. 



The Liberty Field Hospital Ward, designed and constructed 

 under the direction of President Osborn, by Chief of Construc- 

 tion H. F. Beers, has been exhibited in the Museum, at the 

 Grand Central Palace and at the Pacific Coast Land and Indus- 

 trial Exposition at Oakland, California. 



Plans for a Reconstruction Hospital, to be connected with 

 the laboratories and exhibition halls of the Mu- 



Reconstruc- S eum, for the accommodation of several hundred 

 wounded men, were worked out by Mr. Carl E. 



Akeley, with the approval of the Surgeon General's Office. 



The sudden cessation of the war brought this project to a close. 



