PHYSIOLOGY 
SCIENTIFIC STAFF 
Professor Ralph W. Tower was appointed Curator of the new 
Department of Physiology upon its organization in 1902. He has Ralph w. 
directed the experimentation in the preservation of anatomical speci- I^M^'^'ph d ' 
mens and has also developed the method of preparing skeletons by •^02-. 
the digestion process. 
In his laboratory work, Professor Tower was ably assisted by Dr. Cari w. f. 
Carl W. F. Miinchehofe, who was an assistant in this Department 
from 1904 to 1908. Dr. Miinchehofe had had much experience in i904-8 
laboratory methods, having worked under Virchow, Huxley, and other 
important European scientists, and had acquired a technic especially 
applicable to this kind of work. Especially noteworthy are his 
corrosion preparations of kidneys, lungs, etc., and the specimen and 
apparatus showing the action of the valves of the heart. 
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