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ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY

Figure 82.—Main exhibit hall of the Medical Museum in the 1930's. These crowded conditions continued and even worsened, until the Museum vacated its quarters in the old building, making more space available for other activities of the Institute.

"poorly displayed" due to "lack of space and wholly inadequate housing facilities[1] (fig. 82).

The postwar relationships and associations among the several Army organizations devoted to particular features of military medical activities, and the prospective functions and development of each of them, became the subjects of active consideration, both by correspondence and conference, throughout 1945, before as well as after the cessation of hostilities.

Problems of Location

Much thought was given to the advantages and disadvantages of the several arrangements which might be made. Should the Library and the Museum

  1. Correspondence, Col. J. E. Ash to The Surgeon General, 7 February 1945. On file in historical records of AFIP.