The institute and its ancestry -- Backgrounds and beginnings -- Second wind -- Broadening the base -- An ending and a beginning -- The Walter Reed chapter -- Triumph over typhoid -- The "pickle factory" period -- The museum in a world at war -- The institute idea -- The registry movement -- Between the wars -- Pathology worldwide -- The immediate, imperative objective -- New name, new home, new responsibilities -- Carrying on in the "old red brick" -- Life in the new building -- Into the second century.