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360 119.—Continued. B. Mr. Van Cott at work.

In addition to this vivid depiction of war wounds, the Illustration Service continues its pictorial part in the war against disease. In this, it is greatly aided by the new equipment which came with the new building (fig. 122). This includes a new offset press, a hand proving press, a 24-inch processing camera, and other new items to speed up and improve the quality of reproduction of the plates in the "Atlas of Tumor Pathology." Its publication is further aided by a new collating rack in the bindery, which makes it possible for one person to collate the pages of an entire volume without lost motion. Such a rack, designed by those who were to use it in "picking up" some 5- or 6-million pages a year, is a far cry from the pigeonholes on the stairway of the old building, in which the pages of early publications of the Medical Museum were placed to be collated, a few at a time, by members of the staff en route to and from the rest rooms in the old building.

Another segment of the Illustration Service which was enabled to increase and improve its output upon removal from cramped quarters on the topmost floor of the old building is the Photography Division, which normally turns