The file contains documents of the Associate Committee of the Montreal Neurological Institute. This includes correspondence, a description of purpose, plans for a Bon Voyage dinner for staff (who are listed), an autograph and typescript of a Wilder Penfield toast speech, and fund-raising correspondence with F.C. James, Duggan, the Canadian Club of New York, the Canadian Red Cross, C.F. Martin, and J.W. McConnell.
The file contains miscellaneous items about staff, including journals, a list of doggerel verse (possibly attributed to C.E. Cross), and an illustrated booklet on Hackwood Park, Hants, (NE. Basingstoke).
The file contains two reports, 'Effects of bombing on Hospital casualties', by E.H. Botterell and 'Report of command course', by Majors Hyland and Childe and Captain Hanson.
The file contains 2 complete sets (nos. 1-12) of Interim Reports (an incomplete set has been placed with photos in E/VN 3, being replaced by the 2 library copies).
The file contains 14 postcards of the environment around the Basingstoke Hospital; 17 snapshots, including some with Wilder Penfield, (duplicates of 2 in E/VN 3); 2 snapshots of pheasant's brain & lung; a photo of a portrait sketch of C. Russell; 3 official Candadian Medical Hospital press photos, meeting of Ryl Soc. Br. Neurol. Surg, Basingstoke Hospital.
The file contains 1 bound volume containing operation reports for 1940-1941, arranged alphabetically, at the No.1 Neurological Hospital RCAMC . The volume contains a book plate 'Ex Librits W.V. Cone presented to Fellows' Library, MNI'
The file contains a printed announcement of Penfield and Cone’s professional wartime services; 1 bound volume containing legends for the photographs in A/N 11-7/1; and a photocopy of R.C. Fetherstonhaugh’s ‘McGill University at War’ listing all those killed in action, killed on active service or died of wounds for 1939-1945.
The file contains 3 xerox copies of letters each to E. Flanagan from W.V. Cone and C. Russell plus one newspaper clipping ‘That Kind of Canadian Nurse’ from the Sunday Post, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 16 1984.
The file is a brown envelope containing No.1 Neurological Hospital financial statements, bank correspondence, deposit slips, the correspondence for the creation of a library overseas, and two photographs, one of which is a group photo of the hospital staff.
The file contains 3 papers by G.H. Ettinger, Honorary Secretary of the National Research Council of Canada: ‘History of the Associate Committee on Medical Research’ (reprint of CMA Journal, April 1961), ‘Effects of Farquharson Committee Report on Canadian Medical Schools’, and ‘Origins of Support for Medical Research in Canada’ (reprint of CMA Journal, April 1958).
