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stat Division was headed by Maj. Floyd C. Egger, and in 1951, a new General Service Division was formed with Lt. Cdr. G. T. Moss as Chief. In the spring of 1952, after 5 years of service, Dr. Gunn resigned to enter private industry, to be succeeded by Mr. Reeve as Acting Chief of the Department, with Mr. Van Cott as Deputy Chief. William E. Macy became Chief of Scientific Illustration. Later in the year, Commander Moss was relieved, due to a change of station, and was replaced by Joseph Q. Conroy. Joseph Carter retired and was succeeded by Julius Halsman as Chief of the Photography Division. The recently renamed Printing Division was headed by Walter Harders, in place of Major Egger, who was transferred. 26^[1]

In March 1953, Don Carlos Ellis, Chief of the Training Aids Division, died from injuries received in an automobile accident and was succeeded by Morris Goldberg.

In December of the same year, Mr. Reeve retired, after 36 years of service, in which he had done much to enhance the position of the Museum-Institute as a leader in the field of medical photography, particularly in photomicrography. He was succeeded as head of the Medical Illustration Service by Herman Van Cott, a graduate in fine arts of Yale University and an artist of distinction in his own right. 27 ^[2]

Rebirth of the Medical Museum

During the last decade of the occupancy of the old brick building by the Institute, the Medical Museum— the mother which "had been overshadowed by its offspring" 28^[3] — began a comeback from the low estate into which it had drifted during and just after World War II. Wartime demands for space had all but squeezed the Museum out of the main building. Museum materials, for which no room was available, had been stored and, as it turned out, not well and safely stored. Rehabilitation started when on 9 August 1946, Chase Hall, a temporary building put up during the war to house the SPARS— the Women's Reserve Corps of the U.S. Coast Guard— was assigned to the Museum, which began to gather itself together again.

The small part of its collections which had remained in the main building were moved across the street, Independence Avenue, into the newly available space. Thither, also, the vans brought materials from storage space on Maine

1. 26 Annual Reports, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1940, p. 40; 1950, pp. 33, 45; 1951, pp. 37, 45 - 1952. PP. 44. 45.
2. 27 Annual Report, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1953, pp. iii, 4.
3. 28 Annual Report, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1947, p. 22.