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tions have been raised: (1) Should the chart be a folder or a 

 single sheet (i.e., two pages or four)? (2) Shall the use of the 

 group number be continued? (3) Shall a special space be de- 

 voted to pathogenesis? These three questions require some 

 discussion. 



TWO PAGES VERSUS FOUR PAGES 



The committee has never been unanimously in favor of a four 

 page folder. In fact some of us have always been of two minds 

 on the subject. But enquiries made a few years ago seemed to 

 show that nearly all the institutions then printing charts of their 

 own for instruction purposes were using a folder. Accordingly 

 the committee decided in favor of a folder for the instruction 

 chart, thinking that the old card still remained to be used by those 

 who preferred the single sheet. The old card, however, is out- 

 of-date and calls for much unneeded information, and hence does 

 not fill the need for a single sheet chart. 



It seems, therefore, as if it would be well to replace the old 

 card of 1914 with a new chart which would be a compromise be- 

 tween the two forms now in use. The experience of the last two 

 years has shown that even research men prefer a chart consider- 

 ably simpler than the old card and are using the folder to some 

 extent, although they do not like its bnlk. Hence it is not im- 

 possible that a compromise form might prove more satisfactory 

 both to teachers and to research men than either of our present 

 charts. It should be a single sheet of quarto size, printed on 

 both sides, with the most important information on its face, call- 

 ing for more information than the folder, but less than the old 

 card, more concise than the folder but with more blank space 

 for sketches and notes than allowed by the old card. If both 

 the new chart and the folder were then put on sale, a couple of 

 years experience would show whether there would be call for 

 both forms or if one could supplant the other. 



During the coming year the committee plans to take this mat- 

 ter up with all the institutions that have recently ordered our 

 charts, and to ask the instructors whether they prefer a folder 



