The file consists of correspondence and course outlines of the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Medicine.
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.
Sub-series consists of bound appointment diaries used by Dr. Penfield to kep track of both his personal and professional engagements between 1930 and 1976.
The file contains Wilder Penfield’s general correspondence regarding the organization of the Montreal Neurological Institute between 21 August 1931 and 23 May 1934.
The file contains correspondence about Provincial grants for the Montreal Neurological Institute. Notable names include Premier Hon. L.A. Taschereau, Premier Hon. Maurice Duplessis, Hon. Paul Sauve, Hon. Albini Paquette, Justice Thomas Tremblay, and Hon. Onesime Gagnon.
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.