re: Brain banking
Cathy: A good starting point is the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, DC. The National Museum of Health and Medicine (U.S.) [ http://130.14.42.05/collections/collections1.html ] there includes: - Neuroanatomical Collections, including the Blackburn-Neumann Collection, Adolph Meyer Collection, Welker Comparative Anatomy Collection, and Yakovlev-Haleem Collection. Contact Archie Fobbs, Museum Specialist for the neuroanatomical collections [fobbs@afip.osd.mil]. Archie and his group have often carted along computers to demonstrate at the Teaching in Neuroscience poster session of the Society for Neuroscience, by the way. - Otis Historical Archives (which closed last Friday for renovations ; they post on their website that research queries are not being accepted until the Spring--but get yours in the queue now): Mike Rhode, archivist, [ rhode@afip.osd.mil ] Be sure to also confer with your librarian about PubMed (i.e., MEDLINE) for articles (and WorldCat/OCLC or RLIN for monographs), using MeSH subject headings such as "Tissue Banks" and keywords "brain" and "brains"; adding the publication type "historical article" might be too restrictive, though. Cheers, Russell Johnson ___________________________________________________ Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu Archivist and Cataloger (310) 825-6940 History & Special Collections Division Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA Box 951798 Los Angeles CA 90095-1798 http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/hisdiv.htm Archivist (310) 825-3191 or 206-2753 Neuroscience History Archives Brain Research Institute, UCLA Box 951761 Los Angeles CA 90095-1761 http://www.NeuroscienceArchives.org