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Figure 87.—A corner of the exhibits of the Museum as shown in Chase Hall.

the University of Pennsylvania, was elected chairman, to serve 1 year, and Dr. Robert A. Moore of Washington University, St. Louis, was named as secretary. At a second meeting, held on 13 April 1947, the Board discussed the plans for the new Institute of Pathology, its functions, and its administrative status, and recommended to The Surgeon General that facilities be provided for "research in pathology in the broadest sense," that the personnel of the Institute be "free to conduct research on an individual basis, in addition to participation in major problems of the Army Medical Department," and that the Director of the Institute "should be responsible directly to the Surgeon General."^[1]

The reasoning behind these recommendations is expressed in the Annual Report of the Institute for 1947, submitted by General Dart, as follows:

Research in morbid anatomy constitutes but one of the phases of pathologic investigation. If research problems in pathology are to be properly correlated with medical problems as a whole, laboratory investigation and animal experimentation are indispensable. These phases of investigation are not available to members of the staff on the present premises of

1. Annual Report, Army Institute of Pathology, 1947. pp. 14, 15.