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Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942
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Blacker-Wood Manuscripts Collection

  • CA RBD BWMSS
  • Collection
  • 1800-1979

The collection consists primarily of manuscripts and typescripts of papers written on natural history topics, such as insects, birds, marine life, plants, and reptiles. Most of the documents concern the collection and cataloguing of specimens, and the identification of new species. Also included are research notes, notebooks, field notes, lecture notes, correspondence, off-prints, proofs, and galley proofs, as well as drawings and mock-ups of illustrations for printing.

The Philippines are the most heavily-represented country in the subject material of the collection, followed by other areas of South-East Asia and the South Pacific, including Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, the Soloman Islands, and Hawaii. There is also material representing North and Central America, including Mexico, the United States of America (especially California and Alaska), El Salvador, the Galapagos, and Canada (especially Quebec and Newfoundland). Some works also relate to China, the British Isles, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, and Socotra (Yemen).

Significant figures represented in the collection include: Richard Crittenden McGregor, A.E. Wileman, Edward Charles Stuart Baker, Frank Spaeth, Casey Albert Wood, Averil Lysaght, Harry S. Swarth, Henry Seebohm, Henry George Vennor, Roy E. Dickerson, J. Muir, and Charles Fuller Baker.

Highlights from the collection include: a manuscript copy of Joseph Banks’ journal from his 1768-1771 voyage on the Endeavour, likely made by Maria Dawson Turner; a manuscript, and several annotated typescript versions of Volume 5 of E.C. Stuart Baker’s “Fauna of British India birds”; an assortment of Casey A. Wood’s research notes; annotated proofs, galley proofs, and a mock-up of Richard C. McGregor and Elizabeth J. Marshall’s “Philippine birds for boys and girls;” and a binder of ornithological notes recorded by G.G. Ommanney and others in the Whitlock Bird Sanctuary and surrounding district near Hudson, Quebec.

Many of the manuscripts in the collection were published by the Philippine Journal of Science; also included is correspondence related to publication in the journal, especially related to editing and corrections.

Howland Wood Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 63
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1934

Fonds contains forty-three letters to Casey A. Wood from Howland Wood describing the Gampala Larin hoard and the finding coins in Ceylon, 1929-1934.

Wood, Howland, 1877-1938

Letter to Casey Albert Wood, December 22, 1915

Letter to Casey Albert Wood from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Word about the fire in the dining-room. They are hopeful in spite of transient set tasks. It is hard to turn a democracy into an army. Agrees with the subscription to a cigarette fund. It will be helpful. Amazed by the monetary help they received from America for the Belgian professors. Revere is off with the McGill Unit and will go with No.3 Field Ambulance. His library grows. Edmund Boyd Osler gave him 7000 $ to spent for his collection which will go to McGill. Greetings for 1916.

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

Letter to Casey Albert Wood, June 29, 1912

Letter to Casey Albert Wood from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for his photograph of him. Their edition of Helmholtz's life had to be curtailed from the German to bring it into a single volume. All students and young doctors should read the lives of Pasteur and Helmholtz. Glad to see the notice of Wood's ophthalmic library in the report of the librarian of McGill. Mentions that his library will finally be housed in Montreal. Gives the two lines of his collection : books that are of historical importance in the evolution of medicine, and books that have interest through the character or work of their authors. Invitation. Sends him a photograph. News of Revere. Mention of their holiday in Scotland in August. Civilities. P.S. Delighted with Allport's report.

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

Letter to Casey Albert Wood, May 29, 1920

Letter to Casey Albert Wood from George H. Perley, 19, Victoria Street, London, Oxfordshire, England. Extract from letter. Perley laments the death of Osler. He remarks that no one in their generation was more human, helpful, or had made such a vast number of friends in every part of the world as Osler. Osler never fully recovered from the loss of his son. Perley attended Osler's funeral at Oxford. He writes that McGill University will greatly benefit from Osler's Library.

Perley, George H.

W.W. Francis Fonds

  • CA OSLER P155
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1959

The fonds contains correspondence related to the Osler Library and its holdings with people such as Maude Abbott, Edward Archibald, William B. Bean, Edward Horton Bensley, Archibald Malloch, Casey Wood, as well as John Farquhar Fulton, Keeper of the Medical History Collections at Yale University's library; the fonds also contains a typescript of talks by W.W. Francis (titled "Showman's Patter") about books and other items held in the Osler Library.

Francis, William Willoughby, 1878-1959