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subjects of the curriculum, while medicine and surgery 
were represented by the whole-time professors at 
University College Hospital, there was a lack of beds 
devoted entirely to the work of these units, and the 
accommodation for research into the chemistry of 
disease was deficient ; there was no provision at all | 
for scientific investigation and teaching in midwifery 
and the diseases of women. 
these gaps in the scheme were ready; the only thing 
necessary for the realisation of the scheme was money. 
The representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation 
were impressed with the possibilities of the scheme 
for the creation of a complete and scientifically 
equipped School of Medicine which had been worked 
out by the College and Hospital Medical School, and 
reported favourably thereon to the Rockefeller Founda- 
tion. As a result of their report the Foundation 
decided not only to place at the disposal of University 
College sufficient funds for the realisation of the scheme 
formulated in 1907, but also to provide the additional 
endowment required to maintain the increase in 
staff which the scheme entailed. At the same time 
the Rockefeller Foundation made an even larger 
gift to University College Hospital Medical School 
for the promotion of the work of the clinical units. 
The new building provides adequate accommoda- 
tion and equipment for the study of anatomy and the 
prosecution of research. It also gives tangible 
expression to a wider conception of the scope of 
anatomy, which will now include histology, em- 
bryology, experimental embryology and neurology, 
the study of animal movements by cinematography, 
radiology, and anthropology, and in fact the study of 
man in the widest interpretation of the term, his 
evolution, structure, and the history of his move- 
ments. 
The completion of the building for the three 
closely allied sciences of anatomy, physiology, and 
pharmacology represents far more than the mere 
provision of accommodation and equipment for 
teaching and research in anatomy and of an extension 
of the physiological laboratories. It is the expression 
of a far-reaching scheme of co-operation, involving on 
one hand the closer correlation of teaching and 
research in anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology, 
and on the other the linking up of the work done in 
the Faculty of Medical Sciences in the College with 
that done in the Medical School of University College 
Hospital. Moreover, the new building is a permanent 
symbol of the bond of sympathy that unites British 
medicine in a common aim with the medical schools 
of America and with the Rockefeller Foundation. 
By housing the departments of anatomy (with 
histology, embryology, and anthropology), physiology, 
bio-chemistry, and pharmacology in one Institute 
with a library and staff-room in common, the way has 
been prepared for a closer co-operation between 
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teaching and research in these subjects than has been | 
possible hitherto. The new anatomy building is 
linked by means of a tunnel passing under Gower 
Street with the Medical School of University College 
Hospital, and it is anticipated that this physical 
avenue of communication will facilitate a freer inter- 
course between the workers upon the two sides of 
Gower Street, to their mutual benefit. 
The extension of the department of physiology | 
affords ampler provision for teaching and research in 
experimental physiology, and makes it possible for 
Prof. Starling to remain in the College as Foulerton 
research professor of the Royal Society, even though 
he relinquishes the Jodrell chair of physiology and the | 
directorship of the Institute which he created. 
Of the five floors in the building, the lowest is | 
devoted mainly to practical work in anatomy, that is, 
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dissecting and radiography; the next floor to teaching 
accommodation and museums, as well as to anthropo- 
logical investigation ; the third and fourth toresearch 
in anatomy, histology, and embryology; and thetop 
floor to teaching in microscopic anatomy. A basement 
contains the heating chambers, toke cellars, tank, and 
specimen rooms. 4 
The building, designed by Prof. F. M. Simpson, 
faces Gower Street, and has a frontage of 154 feet 
exclusive of the end gateway, which gives access to 
the south quadrangle. At the back it joins the 
physiology building. On a level with the students’ 
entrance from the south quadrangle are the large 
top-lighted dissecting room, with prosectorium and 
annexe, the X-ray rooms, injection room, workshop, 
and cloakrooms for men and women students. 
The rooms for the X-ray examination of the living 
subject and for the study of X-ray plates are near 
at hand, so that the students may be able, when 
dissecting any region of the body, to correlate the 
X-ray appearance with what they see and handle in 
their dissections. The X-ray equipment, the chief 
features of which are mentioned later in this account, 
has been superintended by Major Charles E. S. 
Phillips, who has spared no trouble in devising the 
best possible means for teaching anatomy by 
radiography. 
The main entrance from Gower Street is at the 
ground-floor level, and leads by an oak-panelled 
vestibule to the hall and central staircase which 
serves all floors. On the ground-floor are the museum 
and preparation room, lecture theatre, fitted with 
the latest Zeiss epidiascope, demonstration theatre, 
and rooms set apart for teaching and research in 
anthropology. 
On the first floor are the medical sciences library 
and periodical room, oak-panelled, with a book-store 
adjoining the room for the lecturer in the history of 
medicine, the private room and laboratory for the 
professor of anatomy, the dean’s office, and a series of 
research rooms, including a laboratory for compara- 
tive neurology. In the latter will be housed a collec- 
tion of neurological preparations, the nucleus of 
which consists of sections made by the late Dr. Page 
May and Sir Victor Horsley, and others presented 
by the Central Institute for Brain Research in 
Amsterdam at the instance of Dr. Ariens Kappers. 
On the second floor are located the research labora- 
tories for the professor of embryology, and a lecture 
room seated for about ninety students, with an 
apparatus for the projection of histological prepara- — 
tions. Also on this floor are situated a small chemical 
laboratory, a laboratory for research in experimental 
embryology, and the micro-photographic and dark 
rooms, while two rooms provide accommodation for 
collections of preserved material and microscopical 
preparations. Prof. J. P. Hill has made a very rich 
collection of mammalian embryos, and aims at 
making as complete a series as possible of human 
embryos. For research in comparative embryology 
the Institute offers unique opportunities. t 
The main students’ laboratory for microscopical 
anatomy is situated on the third floor. It affords 
accommodation for about ninety students. Adjacent 
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research laboratory for the assistant in histology, 
modelling and aquarium rooms. Accommodation 
for keeping live animals is also provided on the third 
floor, and provision has been made. of facilities for 
experimental embryology and for the study o 
degeneration effects in the nervous system. ; 
In a room set aside for the cinematographic study 
of animal movements, there is to be installed a 
cinematographic apparatus (so-called ultra-cinema) 
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