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been greatly broadened, and is now clearly the same as that of the Royal College of Surgeons."

Speaking "On Medical Museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington," Dr. Billings declared that the "object of this address is not to boast of what we have, but to indicate what we want." The Museum, he said, had "only a beginning of such an anatomical collection as I have indicated is desirable * * *. We are accustomed to think that human anatomy is exhausted as a field for original research," a view to which the speaker did not subscribe. "There is ample material and scope for original work for half a dozen skilled anatomists for many years to come to supply the demands of this museum for illustrations of human morphology * * *," he added.

"The pathological section of a Medical Museum is its main feature," he said. "No doubt much of the ancient pathology, and some of that which is quite recent, is comparable to the looking in the dark for a black spot which is not there, but those who despise pathology, and devote their entire time to