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Title: Annual report of the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the year
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : (American Museum of Natural History)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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and otherdiseased conditions were discovered; such were advised to seekimmediate medical treatment. All of the uranalyses were madeby Mr. Charles F. Herm, who also, at the request of the De-partment of Anthropology, made the anthropometric compu-tations, which were most detailed, comprising twenty-eightdifferent measurements upon each individual. In connectionwith this work Mr. Herm devised a unique and practicalcaliper which recorded from one position both the bigonialwidth and bigonial length of the face. In the early part of the year opportunity was found topursue further the investigations on the development of the redblood corpuscles in birds and amphibians. Many interestingobservations have been made and a program for more detailedstudy has been outlined. The department has already begun to prepare a comparativecollection of brains and spinal cords for the purpose of sta-tistical and topographical study as well as for museum demon- Under the Department of Anatomy and Physiology.
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Food Conservation 91 stration. It is proposed to establish series not only of completespecimens by the dry and wet methods, but of those preparedin sections suitable for both macroscopic and microscopic study.Several scientists of the city have expressed their willingnessto collaborate in this work, which guarantees the success of theundertaking. The department has prepared and placed on exhibition aseries illustrating the adaptation of the fore limb for flight.There has also been prepared and made ready for installationa series demonstrating the adaptation of limbs for swimming.There have been prepared also 741 skulls and 95 skeletons. PUBLIC HEALTH * Charles-Edwaed Amory Win slow, Curator With the development of the world war it became evidentthat the dual necessity of conserving food for the strickenpopulations of Europe and maintaining at aHygiene of maximum our own national vitality made thethe Diet problems of food hygiene and food conservation Conserva- °^ paramount importance

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