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 * 1931

Maj. Paul Edgar McNabb succeeded Ash as Curator.


 * 1933

Maj. Virgil Heath Cornell succeeded McNabb as Curator.

Registry of Dental and Oral Pathology established; reactivated the arrangement of 1895 between the American Dental Association and Museum.


 * 1935

19 July: Maj. Raymond O. Dart succeeded Cornell as Curator.

Registry of Otolaryngic Pathology established.

Major Dart's special report to Surgeon General on the state of the Museum.

Capt. Hugh Richmond Gilmore, Jr., succeeded Dart as Acting Curator.


 * 1937

9 February: Lt. Col. James E. Ash returned for a second tour of duty as Curator; succeeded Gilmore.


 * i938

15 June: Important contributions to Museum of models, pictures, specimens, and instruments.

New building for Museum authorized by Congress.


 * 1940

4 January: President Franklin D. Roosevelt earmarks funds for new building in his budget.

13 June: Appropriation of $130,000 for preliminaries of construction approved by Congress.


 * 1941

11 August: Consulting Board approved new building plans.

24 September: President Roosevelt signed H.R. 5146; authorized expenditure increased from $3,750,000 to $4,750,000.

11 December: Surgeon General's Circular Letter No. 121 decentralized pathological facilities and activities of the Army; 18 histopathological centers established.


 * 1943

November: Surgeon General informally authorized designation, "Army Institute of Pathology."

26-31 December: Widespread distribution of pathological material on tropical diseases.