Further considerations upon the organization of an ideal medical museum / by D. Bryson Delavan.

  • Delavan, D. Bryson (David Bryson), 1850-1942.
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[1932?]
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    tors. The broad scope and the original and enlight¬ ening character of their contents, dealing with all departments and methods have continued materially to advance the work. Undoubtedly the most important additions to the main subject itself in recent years are the medical museums created by Mr. Henry S. Wellcome of London, a splendid contribution to the whole sub¬ ject of medical museum organization, management, technic, and education, as demonstrated in the insti¬ tution itself and set forth by its director, Dr. S. H. Daukes, in his book, The Medical Museum, Based on a New System of Visual Teaching, London, 1927. The Wellcome Museums with their affiliated re¬ search laboratories, constituting the Wellcome Bu¬ reau of Scientific Research and housed in buildings of the first order especially adapted to their purposes, are a remarkable tribute to the genius and the gen¬ erosity of their donor. The great scientific value of this creation by Mr. Wellcome will become in¬ creasingly appreciated as its extraordinary merits are better known.4 Dr. Maude Abbott, compiler of the Index, her¬ self a museum expert of distinction, refers to the Wellcome Museum as follows: “The ideal of the clinical museum as conceived by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and the like great workers of the last century is here brought to adequate fulfillment in 4In London, November, 1931, Lord Moynihan, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, laid the cornerstone of a new building for The Wellcome Foundation. This will measure 225 feet by 135 feet, and is to be known as The Wellcome Foundation Medical and Chemical Research Building. During many years the Foundation has maintained medical and chemical research laboratories but recent developments have made it necessary to coordinate and extend these activities. The new building will provide the additional accommodations required and be furnished with the most modern research equipment and facilities. Student classes and many physi¬ cians have made continual use of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science. The object of the new building is to enable the teaching facilities of the Museums, the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research and the separate but affiliated Medical and Chemical Research Laboratories to be coordinated and extended. The accommodation heretofore offered to students by twelve laboratories will be doubled; other laboratories will be established. Several floors will be devoted to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, the greatest of its kind. The Museums and the various Laboratories are the culmination of forty years of earnest effort on the part of Dr. Wellcome in pro¬ moting medical research, the advance of which depends upon the methods of the ancillary sciences which would be developed in this and similar institutions. At New Year’s, 1932, Dr. Henry S. Wellcome, a native of Wis¬ consin and a British subject by naturalization, received the Order of Knighthood, conferred upon him by King George, in recognition of his distinguished furtherance of medical research carried on with ever-increasing zeal for many fruitful years. See page 16.