. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 20.—Exhibit on spectacles, lorgnettes, optometers, and refraction, completed in i960. It features a cross section of the Division's large collection of eyeglasses. (Smith- sonian photo 47943-D.) medical, dental, and pharmaceutical acquisitions. Specimens of antiques acquired from 1961 through 1963 numbered up to 1,539 and included gifts from leading institutions and individual philanthropists. The scope of these gifts and acquisitions ranges from electronic resuscitators, microscopes, x-ray equipment, and spectacles, to patent medicin
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 20.—Exhibit on spectacles, lorgnettes, optometers, and refraction, completed in i960. It features a cross section of the Division's large collection of eyeglasses. (Smith- sonian photo 47943-D.) medical, dental, and pharmaceutical acquisitions. Specimens of antiques acquired from 1961 through 1963 numbered up to 1,539 and included gifts from leading institutions and individual philanthropists. The scope of these gifts and acquisitions ranges from electronic resuscitators, microscopes, x-ray equipment, and spectacles, to patent medicines, amulets, apothecary tools, dental instruments, and office material of practitioners. In the last decade, the interest in the national endeavor for promoting research and scholarship in the history of medicine has increased greatly. It was most appropriate, therefore, for the Smith- sonian Institution to play host on May 2 for two sessions of the 37th annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine held in the Washington, ; . area from April 30 through May 2, 1964. In welcoming the members to the morning session in the auditorium of the new Museum of I Kstory and I echnology, Frank A. Taylor, director of the United States National Museum, expressed the feeling that the meeting of the Association was, in a sense, a dedication of the new auditorium and an opportunity for the Smithsonian to reaffirm its deep interest and commitment in fostering research and furthering the appreciation of scholarly endeavor in the history of the healing arts. A New Dimension For the Healing Arts '•One day the United States will have a National Museum of science, engineering, and industry, as most large nations ; This was the prediction made in 1946 by the director of the National Mu- seum, Mr. Frank A. Taylor, then curator of the Division of It was in 1963, that the new $36,000,000 building of the Museum of History "Taylor, "
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