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346 114.—Specimens in storage and on display. A. Large crock jars for storage of specimens are being replaced by plastic bags.

mens in the main building had been converted to plastic bags, and work was well started on conversion of the storage at Franconia. The difficulties inherent in the 25 miles between the place of storage and the place of use were such that in the spring of 1960 a study was started looking to the possibility of finding space at or near Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Maj. Charles B. Broadway, Chief of the Professional Records Division, who played a large part in the development of the plastic bag technique, represented the Institute in a careful but fruitless search, and the 50-mile round trip continues to handicap the work of the Institute, and particularly that of the Department of Pathology.

The expansion of professional services with consequent changes in the organizational structure of the Institute emphasized the fact that through all