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About the death of his patient and dear friend, Henry B. Clark. Letter contains a detailed case narrative.

Henry Acland was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford to 1895. E. Ray Lankester left the Linacre professorship of comparative anatomy at Oxford in 1898 to become director of the British Museum. (Natural History). Letter by Henry Acland is to an unidentified recipient discussing raising funds for a public health building and the search for a successor to Lankester.

Concerning Fry's purchasing of drawings by Addams, a cartoonist for the New Yorker.

Letter of Arthur Aikin on behalf of the Society of Arts to [James?] Asperne thanking him for portraits for the Society. Aikin does not have a portrait of himself to furnish but will be available if Mr. Drummond (an artist?) should call. Gift of L. Cohen, Argosy Books, 1952.

Charles Richard Alsop graduated from Yale College in 1821 and practiced law in Middletown, Connecticut. The folder contaians letters to Charles Richard Alsop from his sister, Lucy Chauncey, his mother, and Charles Woodward of Middletown, Connnecticut, discussing a yellow fever scare attributed in part to Yale medical professor, William Tully, family matters, social life in Middletown, the illness and death of Lucy Chauncey's daughter, Clara, en route to Valparaiso, social life in Valparaiso where Lucy Chauncey settled with her family, quarantine of ships for cholera in Valparaiso, Alsop's engagement to Margaret Armstrong, and Mrs. Dana's eye problems. The letters were the gift of Mrs. Kenneth McKenzie, granddaughter of Charles Richard Alsop, 1956.

Letters signed by James A Babbitt and Charles J. Imperatori, successive secretaries of the American Laryngological Association, concern Swain's election to Honorary Fellowship. Gift of Henry L. Swain.

Review of a book in French on French hospitals in the colonies from 1777 to 1784. Lane was interested in French physicians serving in the Revolutionary war.

Letter of Jean Astruc to an unknown correspondent excusing his absence from an unnamed scientific society and presenting the society with a geometric problem transmitted by a geometer in the area. Removed from the Library's copy of Astruc, Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier(1767).

Letter from Joseph Babinski to [Edgar?] Berillon thanking him for the invitation to the next meeting of the Societe d'Hypnologie. He has nothing to present but will attend. Gift of John F. Fulton, 1950.