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Figure 69.—Col. James E. Ash, fifteenth Curator, 1929-1931; twentieth Curator, 1937-1946; and first Director, Army Institute of Pathology, 1946-1947.
The availability of this diagnostic service at the Museum "apparently is not fully appreciated by the surgeons of all military hospitals," the letter said, in announcing that certain hospitals had been designated as centers to which selected portions of tissue might be sent for emergency diagnosis "when the best interests of
