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CARRYING ON IN THE "OLD RED BRICK" 103.—A sample study kit.

to it the Codman Bone Sarcoma Registry—the first to be formed in the United States. The collection included 2,374 cases, with specimens and medical histories, on the basis of which much of what was known of the behavior and classification of bone tumors had been developed. The collection became part of the Registry of Musculo-Skeletal Pathology, but retained its name so as "to preserve the identity of the first such Registry created, and to honor Dr. Codman who first conceived the idea of a Registry and follow-ups as an essential feature of medical investigation." General DeCoursey, the Director, expressed the happiness of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at receiving "this historical and valuable collection."