Group photograph, taken October 1946, on the steps of the NIH Administration Building^
(No. 1) in Bethesda, MD at the Dedication No. 7). Dr. R. Eugene Dyer, the Director of thof the new Memorial e NIH, is in the middle of the first row. Dr. Laboratory (Building
Leonard Scheele, the Surgeon General is third from the right in the second row, and Dr.
Charles Armstrong, now Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, is third from the
left in the second row. Courtesy of Mary Emma Armstrong.
(^) In the field of mycology (fungi, yeasts), Dr. Chester W. Emmons made a number
of significant observations and discoveries during this same 1940-1950 decade. He first
pointed out the reservoirs of histoplasmosis in soil (34) and bats (34), of coccidiomycosis
in soil (34), and of cryptococcus in soil (34) and pigeon droppings (34) – thus supplying
crucial information on sources of infection by these pathogenic fungi.
Several pioneering bacteriologists were also still active during this period and were
gradually closing out their professional careers. Dr. Ida A. Bengston was the first woman