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ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY


 * 1865

15 April: Drs. Woodward and Curtis performed the autopsy upon the body of Abraham Lincoln.

Immediately after the removal of the body, Hermann Faber sketched the deathbed scene.

29 April: Autopsy upon the body of John Wilkes Booth performed by Museum's pathologists.

1 November: Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes issued Circular No. 6, describing Woodward's work in photomicrography.


 * 1866

22 December: Museum settled in Ford's Theater building, its fourth home.


 * 1867

25 April: First visiting rules issued for the Museum.


 * 1881

23 February: Dr. Otis died; succeeded by Maj. David Low Huntington as Curator.

19 September: President James A. Garfield died; autopsy performed by Dr. D. S. Lamb, Museum pathologist, with Dr. Woodward as recorder.


 * 1882

30 June: Dr. Lamb performed autopsy of Guiteau, the assassin.


 * 1883

28 December: Museum and Library consolidated into one division. Maj. John Shaw Billings named Curator of Museum as well as Librarian.


 * 1884

11 October: Billings started microscope collection; first 17 arrived in Museum.


 * 1885

25 March: Site for new building (fifth home) selected.


 * 1887

9 November: Museum moved into "new red brick," its fifth home.


 * 1892

12 April: Congress recognized scientific status of Museum.


 * 1893

24 June: Army Medical School established in Museum building by Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg.