the new Hospital, the Eye, 26 Obstetrics and Gynecology Ear, Nose, and Throat Ward, a brick building erected in 1910, was remodeled at a cost of more than $20,000, into an eightytwo-bed obstetrical hospital well adapted for the care of waiting and active maternity patients. The work in clinical obstetrics has been carried on since 1925 in this brick building, renamed the Maternity Hospital. With the transfer of obstetrical patients from the two antiquated wooden buildings to this brick structure, and with the provision for gynecological patients in the new Hospital, a new era began. Gone were the old days when entire wards were quarantined for weeks because of outbreaks of contagious disease. No longer did the surgeons have to contend with serious infections which could be ascribed only to unsanitary hospital conditions. Between 1919 and 1927 the departmental staff was increased from five to seven, exclusive of interns and assistants below the rank of instructor. James Mortimer Pierce (’23m), who was appointed Instructor in 1925, was made Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1928, and in 1930 he became the first member of the staff of the department to be advanced to an associate professorship. Those instructors who remained during the twenties for a period of three years were: Theodore Wright Adams (’18, ’20m), 1921-24; William Henry Rumpf (Minnesota ’20, B.Med. ibid. ’21, M.D. ibid. ’22), 1923-26; Lawrence Edward McCaffrey (M.D. McGill ’21, C.M. ibid. ’21), 1924-27; Harold Arthur Furlong (’22, ’24m) and James Valentine Campbell (’24m), 1926-29; L. Grant Baldwin (’25m) and Harold Smith Morgan (’25m), 1927-30. Lewis Ernest Daniels (’11, M.D. Harvard ’20) was an instructor in the department from 1922 until 1925 and returned in 1930. In December, 1930, after thirty years of service Dr. Peterson resigned his position as head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was succeeded by Dr. Norman F. Miller, one of his former assistants, who some years before had gone to the University of Iowa to become associated with Dr. Everett D. Plass, head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology there. In the nine years which followed Miller’s return to the University in 1931, the staff usually consisted of eight or nine Obstetrics and Gynecology (1942) 27 faculty members, in addition to the interns, most of whom remained as instructors for two or three years after completing the internship. By 1937 it was customary to designate a man “intern” in the first year of his internship, “assistant resident” in the second, and “resident” in the third. Associate Professor James M. Pierce left the department in October, 1931, and in the same year Dr. Daniels and Norman Rudolph Kretzschmar (’24, ’26m, M.S. ’31), instructors, were made assistant professors. Glenn Allan Carmichael (’28m) served as an instructor for three years before leaving the department, as did Woodburn Kenneth Lamb (Alma ’26, ’30m), David Charles Kimball (27, ’30m), and Sprague Heman Gardiner (’30, ’34m, M.S. ’39). James T. Bradbury (Montana State College ’28, Sc.D. Michigan ’33) was selected to fill a special research assistantship in the department in 1933. He was transferred to an instructorship in 1938, and a year later the research position was filled by the appointment of Lore Sophie Marx (Ph.D. Heidelberg ’28). Carl Parker Huber (’24, A.M. ’25, ’28m) served as an instructor from 1930 until 1936, and for three years of that time, 1932-35, was Reuben Peterson Instructor and Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Kretzschmar was promoted to an associate professorship in 1938, and Clair Edwin Folsome (Albion ’25, Michigan ’33m, M.S. ibid. ’38), after four years as an instructor, was appointed Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1939. SELECTED Obstetrics and Gynecology (1975) Fred J. Hodges Dr. Norman Miller followed Dr. Reuben Peterson as chairman of the department from 1931 to 1964 and the department grew steadily in size, multiplicity of activities, and the quality and volume of its investigative activities. In 1950 the department and its clinical facilities in “Old Mat,” which had been built in 1910 as the eye and ear ward, moved into the long awaited, newly constructed “Women’s Hospital.” At the outset this building provided all available facilities for obstetrics as well as gynecology. In recent years the gynecologic segment of the clinical activities has been moved into the Main Hospital where it had previously been accommodated. On the retirement of Dr. Miller, Dr. Robert Willson was appointed as his successor. The affiliation in obstetrics and gynecology of University Hospital and Wayne County General Hospital has expanded yearly. It is now an essential part of the department providing an experience for residents and students which is impossible in Ann Arbor. The directors of this affiliation have been Drs. John Gosling, David Anderson, Charles Bollinger, and Crosby Eaton. The Affiliated Hospital Program has been expanded. Since 1965 representatives of the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology of our group of affiliated hospitals have met each month as a study and planning group designed to improve better communication between the University and the community hospitals. The department has had a strong division of endocrinology, starting with James Bradbury and Gardner Riley. The Endocrine Laboratory has been expanded and new assay methods