How many accessions does the museum have each year?
In 2005 there were 43 accessions of unique artifacts, specimens, and archival material that expanded the museum’s holdings by several hundred items. Of these, 34 went to the museum’s Historical Collections, 4 to the Otis Historical Archives, 3 jointly to the Historical Collections and Otis Historical Archives; 1 to the Neuroanatomical Collections, and 1 to the Anatomical Collections. Among the more interesting items acquired were: • The museum received nearly 200 lantern slides from the family of a World War I era U.S. Army dentist who gathered them while serving in France and in the United States. They graphically depict patients who have received facial reconstruction surgery. Dr. Archibald Louis Miller, a graduate of George Washington College who joined the Army as a lieutenant in May 1917, was promoted to major in early 1918 and sent to Base Hospital No. 6 in France. While overseas he was assigned to the Maxillo Facial Services of the American Expeditionary Force. The collection wa
