Box 42

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Hench sends Lyons a photograph of Reed's grave for possible inclusion in the Hall of Fame exhibit, and discusses the courtesy lines to be used for individual items in the exhibit.

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Lyons thanks Hench for the photograph of Reed's grave and discusses courtesy lines and other details in reference to the copies of Reed items provided by Hench for the Hall of Fame exhibit.

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Hench has received the Carter material sent by Redd. He is disappointed to see no Reed or Lazear correspondence. Hench inquires if it would be possible for Redd to also send the Carter photographs, as he especially wants to find a photograph of Carter in Cuba.

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Hench informs Bettmann that he has sent Lyons at the Hall of Fame some yellow fever photographs made from material Hench purchased from Bettmann.

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Hench thanks Chavez for the photographs and requests permission to use them in slides and in his book, crediting them to Chavez.

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[Hench] discusses the funding approved, by the Minister of Public Works, for the Camp Lazear memorial. [Hench] describes his meetings, arranged by Carbonell, with the Cuban Vice-President and engineer Colete, and postulates that Colete and the Vice-President may have influenced the approval of the funds.

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Brill requests a photograph of Reed to be included with the publication of Hench's lecture in the Alpha Omega Alpha magazine.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...

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Redd informs Hench that he may keep the Carter materials as long as he wishes, and that Redd will look over the Carter photographs and send appropriate ones. Redd knows of only two Walter Reed letters in the materials.

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Hench assures Lyons that he meant to put no pressure on her to include Reed's Congressional Medal in the Hall of Fame exhibit.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...

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Williams has a copy of “Selected Papers of Dr. Carlos J. Finlay” that belonged to Carter, and which contains marginal notes by him. One note pertains to mosquitoes acquired from Finlay by Lazear. Williams offers to lend the book to Hench before returning it to Carter's son.

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Hench discusses details concerning the upcoming publication of his Reed lecture for Alpha Omega Alpha in the society's magazine, the "Pharos."

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Roley writes that he is delighted to send the original Cornwell painting for the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine. He notes in a postscript that the painting should probably be sent to Dart, and so will send him a copy of this letter.

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Lyons clears up some confusion about which items she wanted Hench to send for the Hall of Fame program. Howard will be invited to the ceremony, and she hopes he can come. She regrets that Hench will be unable to attend.

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Hench relates his attempts to locate an aerial photograph of Marianao. Hench thanks McFarland for the suggestion to write the American Geographic Society and asks McFarland if he thinks Hench should correspond with the Pan-American office, in New York.

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Hench thanks Wyllie for the clipping from the University of Virginia Alumni News, but is disturbed that Cooke's name did not appear in the abstract since he is an alumnus of the University of Virginia. Hench mentions his invitation to give his Walter Reed speech before the Albemarle County Historical Society.

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Benjamin tells Hench that the New York Academy of Medicine has taken possession of the correspondence relating to Curie's visit to the United States.

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Minor invites Hench to give his lecture on Walter Reed to the Albemarle County Historical Society.