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 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 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 Maude E. Abbott, The College Club, 1300 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Abbott relays information she received from Dr. Lomer regarding Osler's involvement in the formation of the McGill Graduates' Society, his role as Secretary in 1876, and as President in 1880. [See CUS417/72.14] She gives a progress report on her Osler volume.