HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



SCIENTIFIC STAFF 



Professor Ralph W. Tower was appointed Curator of the new 



Ralph Tower, Department of Physiology upon its organization in 1902. He has 



Ph d directed the experimentation in the preservation of anatomical speci- 



1902- mens and has also developed the method of preparing skeletons by 



the digestion process. 



In his laboratory work, Professor Tower was ably assisted by Dr. 



Carl W. F. Munchehofe, who was an assistant in this Department 



from 1904 to 1908. Dr. Munchehofe had had much experience in 



laboratory methods, having worked under Virchow, Huxley, and other 



important European scientists, and had acquired a technic especially 



Carl w. f. applicable to this kind of work. Especially noteworthy are his 



Munchehofe, corrosion preparations of kidneys, lungs, etc., and the specimen and 



1904-1908. apparatus showing the action of the valves of the heart. 



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