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of the four American Army officers, Reed, Carroll, Lazear, and Agra- 
monte, to whose researches this advance is due, are hung upon the wall 
near by. 
One wall case is devoted to the subject of military hygiene, which 
a has become of such immediate moment and has, on the 
Hygiene whole, been so successfully solved during the Great 
War. Diagrams illustrate the relative deadliness of 
disease germs and bullets in earlier wars; and their lesson is reinforced by 
a representation of the relative importance from injuries in action and 
from typhoid fever during the Spanish War. One company, con- 
fronted by a cannon, suffers the loss of one man wounded, while the 
other, facing a tube of typhoid germs, has one dead and thirteen in the 
hospital. Other models show how camp wastes are disposed of, and how 
water supply is sterilized, and still others, how the soldier’s tent is pro- 
tected against mosquitoes and how a field hospital is equipped. The 
field ration of the soldier and the preparation of anti-typhoid vaccine 
are illustrated by specimens and models. 
Two tree trunks, one normal and the other infested with fungi as a 
result of mechanical injury, illustrate the important fact 
ae that the normal plant or animal is able to resist disease, 
and Disease While anything which tends to lower vital resistance may 
open the way for the invasion of pathogenic germs. 
The collection of Auduboniana, or objects relating to the life and 
works of John J. Audubon, presented to the Museum by 
his granddaughters, Maria R. and Florence Audubon, 
occupies the stairway hall. It includes original sketches and paintings 
by Audubon and his sons, illustrations in various stages from the Quad- 
rupeds of North America, and some of the copper plates of the “‘ Birds of 
North America.’’ The most important piece is a large painting of a 
covey of “English” pheasants, flushed by a dog. Of more personal 
interest is the gun carried by Audubon on many of his expeditions and 
a favorite buckskin hunting coat. 
Near by is a portrait of Robert Havell, the engraver and publisher 
of the first edition of Audubon’s, Birds of America. 
Auduboniana 
