Letter to Harvey Cushing from H.A. Hare, Spruce and 18th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Fragment. The other candidates for the Chair of Clinical Medicine in Philadelphia in 1884, besides Osler, were Louis Starr and Edwin T. Bruen. Hare is certain that Wood was in support of Osler's appointment in Philadelphia. He believes that Osler and Minis Hays became acquainted after the formation of the Association of American Physicians.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Thomas McCrae, 1627, Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. McCrae remarks that Osler often used the title M.R.C.P. (Member of the Royal College of Physicians), as he did on a paper entitled, "Notes of Intestinal Diverticula," in the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, 1881, IV, #5, November. Osler and Allbutt were elected Fellows to the College in 1883. Allbutt delivered the Gulstonian [sic] Lecture in 1884. McCrae will send an account of a dinner for MacAlister in which much is said of the formation of the Royal Society.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from F.X. Dercum, 1719, Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The founders of the American Anthropometric Society were Dr. Harrison Allen, Dr. Joseph Leidy, Dr. William Pepper, Dr. Edward Spitzka and Dr. Dercum. The first meeting was held in 1899 and Osler was a member. The brains collected by the Society were kept in the Wistar Institute and studied by Dr. Spitzka. His findings were published in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S., Volume XXI, Part III. [See CUS417/78.21] Incl. ms. notes.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Henry H. Donaldson, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Donaldson informs Cushing that the President of the Anthropometric Society is F.X. Dercum. The chief object of the society was the preservation of the brains of its members; Osler's name did not appear among the list of members. However, Donaldson does recall seeing Osler at a meeting of the Society at the Art Club in Philadelphia in 1890. Donaldson will send a copy of Osler's "Leaven of Science," which he delivered at the opening of the Wistar Institute.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Henry H. Donaldson, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Donaldson responds to Cushing's request for information regarding Osler's involvement with the Anthropometric Society.