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Faculty of Medicine

This file contains correspondence to Wilder Penfield as Head of the Montreal Neurological Institute and concerns Faculty meetings, teaching courses, invitation to serve as a committee member, Reports (such as one ‘Recommendations concerning amalgamation of the Sub-departments Neurology and Neurological Surgery into the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery’), resolutions, and a report on a telephone conversation with Dr. Convery.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research

This file contains correspondence between the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and concerns the creation of a new department in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research representing the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, outline of teaching faculty and courses, the definition of research fellow vs. research associate, reports from the Montreal Neurological Institute to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, and staffing concerns, including enlistment numbers, appointments, and staff lists. Notable names include A.S. Eve, T.H. Matthews, J.C. Meakins, William Cone, L. Thomson, and J.J. O’Neill.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Principal Morgan

This file contains correspondence with A.E. Morgan as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill about reprint purchases; the Governor General’s visit to the Montreal Neurological Institute; Department finances, staffing, livelihood, official stationary, and administration; the creation of the Hughlings Jackson Lecture; and an Annual Report for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1937.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Principal Douglas

This file contains correspondence with Principal L.W. Douglas about suggestions and recommendations for the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Department expenses, invitations for meetings, lectures, reports and the official opening of both the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Electroencephalography Laboratory at the Institute.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Principal F.C. James

This file contains correspondence with Principal F.C. James concerning staffing of the Montreal Neurological Institute (war-time arrangements, salaries, appointments, the creation of new positions, certificates), general maintenance of the Institute, the agreement between the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) and the Montreal Neurological Institute, financial concerns (increasing deficit, arrangement with the RVH), grants, donations, fellowships, and discussions on visits, invitations and elections for both F.C. James and Wilder Penfield.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Miscellaneous correspondence

Miscellaneous correspondence between Wilder Penfield and members of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) or McGill Community are found in this file. Topics include expenditures, budgets, outside consultations of patients, continued research into epilepsy by Sanitorium, building and outfitting of the MNI, parasympathetic innervention of the salivary glands, and war-time considerations for staff. Notable names include Colonel Wilfred Bovey, George McDonald, B.P. Bakin and William Cone.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Miscellaneous correspondence

Miscellaneous correspondence between Wilder Penfield and members of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) or McGill Community are found in this file. Topics include the allocation of the MNI to the Faculty of Medicine, appointment of examiners for thesis defenses, Department of Anatomy, maintenance (the need for an elevator for the MNI, operating room emergency lighting, the MNI’s flat roof), Psychology, and a draft proposal for a university hospitalization service. Notable names include W.D. Tait and Dr. Harrower.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Miscellaneous correspondence

The file contains miscellaneous correspondence between Wilder Penfield and members of the McGill Community. Topics include maintenance of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) (steam line repair, installation of elevator, fellows kitchen creation, flagstaff installation), Buildings and Grounds department, specimen preparation, appointment of lecturers, non-teaching staff vacation time, reacqusition of supplies, inclusions and exclusions in the budget, blackout practice (1941), and the University Clinic. In addition, there is correspondence related to Penfield’s appointment as part of the Selection Committee for the Chair of Psychiatry.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Miscellaneous correspondence (with Dr. Hans Seyle, 2pp)

The file contains miscellaneous letters, two of which are to and from H. Selye regarding whether McGill should follow American universities and ‘adopt’ a region of the world to study from as many different perspectives as possible and a letter to the Otis-Fenson Elevator Company Limited from P.W. MacFarlane (Superintendent, Buildings and Grounds) regarding the MNI Contracts and whether existing spare parts could be repurposed.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

Associate Dean Bensley

The file contains correspondence to the Associate Dean of Medicine E.H. Bensley. The topics include a questionnaire about Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) staffing, suggestions for changes in the description of the MNI, confirmation of elective courses descriptions under the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, faculty grants for staffing, concern with diploma courses in the Faculty of Medicine, correcting a position error in the 1963-1964 announcement list, the budget, and the Quebec Bureau of Statistics questionnaire.

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976

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