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278 84.—Colonels James E. Ash and Raymond O. Dart look over the message of an exhibit prepared for showing at the American Medical Association Meeting in 1946, as Maj. Ruell A. Sloan, Curator of the Army Medical Museum (left), looks on.

leased on 22 June 1947, he outlined the plan to make Forest Glen "the greatest medical center in the world." It was contemplated that the group of picturesque buildings in a sylvan setting, which had been the home of a school for young ladies, would be used until buildings better adapted to the work of research and graduate training could be secured. The first of these new buildings were to be the ones used for the Institute of Pathology and its associated Museum, and the new hospital which was to be a key facility in the project.

A year after General Bliss's announcement, and 18 months after that by General Kirk, the congressional approval necessary for getting started was secured when, on 12 June 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed the measure which became Public Law 626, 80th Congress, 2d session, and which authorized the spending of $600,000 for "complete plans and specifications of an Army