The file consists of memoranda, correspondence, reports, and suggestions for an Institute of Psychiatry at McGill University. This includes discussions on the creation of a department of Psychiatry; on teaching of psychiatry; a report on the practice of psychiatry in England; suggestions and lists of psychiatrists to populate the new department; and the CV and recommendations for Dr. Ewen Cameron as psychiatrist at McGill.
The file consists of correspondence between Wilder Penfield and Theodore Rasmussen reminiscing on the Department of Psychiatry, including a photocopy of a letter from Penfield to D.E. Cameron.
The file is composed of documents related to McGill Selection Committees. Included is the correspondence, memos, reports and CVs related to the Joint Selection Committee to appoint a Surgeon-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital and Professor of Surgery at McGill University; documents regarding the development of full-time surgery professors at McGill University and its teaching hospitals; and the correspondence, meeting notices, and reports on duties and candidates for the Selection Committee for a Chair in Neurology. In addition, there is correspondence about donations and grants for research in the University Medical Clinic, and Wilder Penfield’s acceptance of membership on various selection committees.
The file consists of correspondence with Dr. E. Archibald and contains correspondence (handwritten and typewritten). The correspondence consists of lists of staff, office expenses, Wilder Penfield’s appointment by the Medical Board, budgets, the organization of the Neruological and Neuro-surgerical clinic, and Penfield’s coming to Montreal.
The file contains a single page letter from Wilder Penfield to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, C.F. Martin, about research which has been carried out by the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The file contains correspondence between Wilder Penfield and D.O. Hebb. It details Penfield’s attendance at his last Board of Governors meeting and the the topics of discussion that arose, such as the changes which have come to the university since Penfield moved to Montreal.
The file contains Wilder Penfield’s general correspondence, arranged alphabetically. It primarily concerns the Osler Library, including topics such as the Osler Visiting Librarianship position, a list of loanable books added recently to the Osler Library (1959), grants to establish a William Osler Lecture in the History of Medicine, the proposal for the development of the Wellcome Camera (the establishment of a reading room at Osler), and the establishment of a Wellcome Fellowship in the History of Medicine.
The file contains Wilder Penfield general correspondence arranged alphabetically and is primarily concerned with the Osler Library. It includes discussions on insurance, the reclassification or reorganization of the collections at Osler, the minutes of the curators of the library, committee reports, resignation letters, and commentary on changes occurring at the library.
