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356 118.—Handling radioactive materials.

utilization in study and investigation. In keeping with these concepts, the collection of materials from Japan has supplied much of the fundamental facts for studies of the effects of radiation, some of which have been published with Japanese and American text in parallel columns.

Closely related to the Department of Pathology in the structure of the Institute is the American Registry of Pathology. The association of the two departments is all the more intimate by reason of the fact that the registrars of the individual registries that make up the American Registry of Pathology are senior pathologists who also head up the specific branches and sections of the Department of Pathology. At the time of the occupancy of the new building in 1955, there were 22 individual registries, with a total of 119,000 cases in their