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turbines were formerly operated were visited. The collection of 

 measuring instruments at Old Sturbridge Village was studied. Brief 

 visits were made also to the Patent Museum at Plymouth, N. H., the 

 Shelburne Museum at Shelburne, Vt., in which are displayed large 

 carriage and tool collections, and the small museum maintained by the 

 Proprietors of the Locks and Canals of Merrimack River, Lowell, 

 Mass. 



Data and ideas that contributed materially to the planning of the 

 new health hall were obtained by George Griffenhagen, curator of 

 medicine and public health, during a European trip August 11 to 

 September 23, 1955. Pharmaceutical and other medical collections 

 were reviewed in London, particularly the medical museums in the 

 Wellcome Building, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum. The recently installed apothecary shop restoration at 

 Leeds and the pharmaceutical antiquities in the Castle Museum and 

 the Yorkshire Museum were examined. At Paris, Dr. Maurice 

 Bouvet, president of the World Union of Societies of Pharmaceutical 

 History, devoted a day to the showing of materials in his personal 

 collection and in the Faculty of Pharmacy. At Basel Mr. Griffen- 

 hagen was shown the Castiglione collection of pharmaceutical majolica 

 belonging to Hoffmann La Roche, and subsequently he viewed the 

 pharmaceutical antiquities in the Schweizer Pharmazie Historische 

 Museum and the Historisches Museum. At Waldenbuch, Germany, 

 the Dorr Pharmaceutical Museum collection was the primary point of 

 interest. After visiting the Deutsches Museum at Munich, Mr. Griffen- 

 hagen proceeded to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to examine an original 

 Roentgen X-ray tube as well as the private collection of pharmaceutical 

 antiques of Franz Winkler. Particular attention was paid to the 

 pharmaceutical antiques and apothecary shop restorations in the 

 Germanisches National Museum at Nuremberg and the Deutsches 

 Apotheke Museum at Bamberg. Officials of the German Health 

 Museum, Cologne, were consulted in regard to arrangements for the 

 procurement of a transparent woman for the Hall of Health. The 

 Rijksmuseum and the Medical-Pharmaceutical Museum in Amsterdam 

 and the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen 

 in Leiden were visited. Following his return to London, Mr. Griffen- 

 hagen reviewed the special exhibits displayed at the meeting of the 

 Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique. 



Precise specifications for exhibits required in the planning for the 

 Hall of Health were requested from Dr. Bruno Gebhard, director, 

 Cleveland Health Museum, by George Griffenhagen and Benjamin 

 Lawless, exhibits specialist, during October 1955. Old prints which 

 will be reproduced in medical history panels were studied in the Rare 

 Book Division of the Armed Forces Medical Library. Mr. Griffen- 



