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THE REGISTRY MOVEMENT
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Figure 72.—Maj. T. C. Jones, VC, Registrar, Registry of Veterinary Pathology, Army Institute of Pathology.

worked both ways, with the Museum staff providing study materials for loan to responsible individuals and sets of lantern slides for group teaching. A combination of group and individual instruction were the seminars conducted for several years by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists for which the Institute of Pathology furnished, upon occasion, as many as 37,000 microscopic slides in sets of 25 slides to each of about 1,500 participants in the program.[1]

From these loan sets of slides, the Museum evolved the atlases which were to become one of the strongest ties between the pathologists of the armed services and the medical profession. In addition to the "Atlas of Tumor Pathology," the Registry has published an "Atlas of Angiocardiography" dealing with observation of the heart and great vessels after intravenous injection of an opaque liquid, and an "Atlas of X-Ray Myelography" dealing with X-ray examination

  1. DeCoursey, Elbert, Transactions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, 57 (1953). p. 16.