Letter to William Osler from Henry Pickering Bowditch, Physiological Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. "Re. newspaper accounts of appt. to McGill to succeed Dawson." Bowditch asks Osler to confirm reports in Boston newspapers that he plans to leave Baltimore for McGill.

Letter to William Osler from Henry Pickering Bowditch, Physiological Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He informs Osler that the Chair of Theory and Practice at Harvard is vacant and hopes that Osler will consider taking on the position.