Museum Staff Playing Active Wartime Role

"Knowledge of the Solomon Islands gained by Douglas L. Oliver, former Research Associate in Anthropology, through two years study of Ethnology here has been of aid to the high command in the campaign now being conducted in the South Pacific," Donald Scott, director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology stated in his annual report released yesterday.

The Museum's photographs of foreign lands have also been used to avail by the government and the demand for anthropologists has increased, Scott continued in pointing out the valuable part of the Museum has been able to play in the country's war effort in spite of the fact that the staff has been cut in half since Pearl Harbor.

The extensive research formerly carried on by the Museum's peace time staff has been seriously hampered by the loss of many men to war service, Scott said.