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THE REGISTERY MOVEMENT 68.—Title page and an illustration from volume XII of "The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War." The illustration shows the lung in a case of pneumonia following influenza.

General, "are the source of the most valuable material now being received, and the museum is fortunate in being chosen to conduct them." Since the registries had been "accepted as offering the greatest aid in determining the best method of reducing the mortality from malignant disease," it was confidently predicted that "registries in other lines will follow as the years go by."

Six years were to go by, however, before another registry was established—years in which Major Callender was to complete his second tour of duty at the Museum, in 1929, to be succeeded by Maj. James Earle Ash, whose first tour of duty covered the years to 1931 and who, in turn, was to be succeeded by Maj. Paul Edgar McNabb, who served until 1933 when Maj. Virgil Heath Cornell became Curator.

The year 1929 was marked by the publication of volume XII of "The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War" (fig. 68), which dealt with the two subjects chosen as the most important conditions of the war from the standpoint of pathology. The first section of the work, "Pathology of