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branches of the work where serial sec- 

 tions and other difficult preparations 

 are to be made. 



With an equipment for anatomical 

 work equal to any in the country, with 

 an endowment equal to the sum total 

 expended by the three great anatomical 

 schools in the states, with no energies 

 expended in teaching undergraduate 

 students, the Wistar Institute, organ- 

 ized as an independent research insti- 

 tution, stands unique in this country 

 for the substantial support and encour- 

 agement of anatomy. How can it be 



late certain suggestions to be discussed 

 at the second session of the conference; 

 this committee presented the following 

 propositions: 



Notes taken at the meeting of the committee 

 yesterday are presented in the following order : 

 (1) The principal object of the institute to be 

 lesearch and under these headings; (a) a 

 chief of investigation, (6) research assistants 

 or assistantships and men who shall divide 

 their services between the museum proper and 

 research, (e) technical assistants. (2) Research 

 and materials: (a) research shall be in the 

 field of neurology, (6) comparative anatomy 

 and embryology. (3) Relations: (a) committee 

 recommends that the subvention to the Journal 

 of Anatomy be granted, (6) committee be ap- 



Method of Storing a Human Skeleton in a Tray. 



made of greatest use to the science? 

 This problem, coupled with the fact 

 that there is no central institute for 

 anatomy in America devoted solely to 

 the one purpose, where research ma- 

 terials may be collected together, prop- 

 erly prepared and sent freely to inter- 

 preters who can not come to the insti- 

 tute, was the reason for calling to- 

 gether ten leaders in the science. They 

 discussed it from their various stand- 

 points and were unanimous in their 

 opinion as to the work which might be 

 accomplished. It was fully agre?d at 

 the first session that the development 

 of a museum and the pursuit of re- 

 search are inseparably united. A com- 

 mittee was then appointed to formu- 



pointed to consider relations of the Wistar In. 

 stitute to American anatomists, (c) the Wistar 

 Institute to apply to the Association of Amer- 

 ican Anatomists for cooperation. (4) That an 

 advisory board of ten be appointed for general 

 purposes: (a) to form a sub-committee on 

 neurology as well as other sub-committees that 

 may be needed, (b) to establish relations with 

 the committee of the International Association 

 of Academies for Brain Investigation and with 

 other committees for collective investigation, 

 (<?) the committee recommends that the board 

 bear in mind that while the general trend of 

 work above outlined is recommended there is 

 no intention to advise limitation of the func- 

 tions of the institute to it exclusively. 



This report was briefly discussed on 

 the following day and presented to the 

 Wistar Institute as the finished work 

 of the conference. The institute ac- 

 cepted it and suggested that the ad- 



