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222 intestinal Tract (1952), all sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists; Genitourinary Pathology (1947), sponsored by the American Urological Association; Cardiovascular Pathology (1948), with the American Heart Association as sponsor; Hepatic Pathology (1949), under the sponsorship of the American Gastroenterological Society; Pediatric Pathology (1956), with the American Academy of Pediatrics as sponsor; and one of Endocrine Pathology, organized in 1948 and currently unsponsored. In the broader fields of function and treatments, registries are found in Gerontology (1945), sponsored by the Gerontological Society; Radiologic Pathology (1947), jointly sponsored by the American College of Radiology, the American Roentgen Ray Society, and the Radiological Society of North America; and Nutritional Pathology (1951), sponsored by the American Institute of Nutrition.

The field of veterinary pathology is covered by a registry organized in 1944, with the American Veterinary Medical Association as sponsor (fig. 72). The specific disease of leprosy is the field of a registry, formed in 1950, under the sponsorship of the Leonard Wood Memorial. Most recent in the roster of registries are the ones on Forensic Pathology, formed in 1958, with the College of American Pathologists as sponsor and two formed in the centennial year of 1962 — one on Radiation Pathology, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Public Health Service, and another on Geographic Pathology, sponsored by the International Academy of Pathology. Both new registries were formed to meet the increasing need for accurate information as to radiation, in the one case, and as to diseases which may be encountered in lands other than the United States, particularly those in the Tropics.

The registries are a living link between the practitioners of the various medical specialties and the staff of the Museum and its successor organizations — first the Army, and then the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, in the consultation, education, and research which are their common objectives.

Brig. Gen. George R. Callender, in whose curatorship at the Museum the first of these links was forged, paid tribute to the civilian pathologists who, in the early days of the Registry, "taught the staff Ophthalmic Pathology, in which at the start we were profoundly ignorant." 15 The teaching process