The James Douglas Adamson files contain the following materials Folder 1:
Obits: CMAJ 91:1033 1964; MMR 44:509 1964; MMR 44:563 1964; ?WFP5 Sept 1964, Appreciations (IM Thompson, LG Bell, S McEwen): MMR,;v44(9):564-565 Nov 1964 & v44(10):635,637 Dec 1964(4pp)
Copy of student and faculty cards (2pp)
Faculty questionnaire, nd (1p)
CVs, nd but various times (incl 5 reprint first pp)
See also no 8 below (11pp)
Personal history (1p)
Thumbnail sketch & picture UMMJ 14:42-43 1943
“Honorary Graduate” - Dr. J.D. Adamson UMMJ 22:149 1951
Copy of service record & picture, Roll of Honour 1914-1918, 1923 (3pp)
James Douglas Adamson (1890-1964): In the Oslerian Tradition by RE Beamish, Annals RCPSC 24(4)191-193; also same title ms as talk by RE Beamish to Can Soc for the History of Medicine, Victoria BC, May 26 1990
Note from AE Thomson on JD’s activities (1p)
Account of address by JDA to Lion’s Club on Man Gov Health Insce, CMAJ v42(4):402 (1p)
Letter from RE Beamish re JDA’s work on high blood pressure (3pp)
Staff record - restricted access (8pp) See also:
Notes from interview with JDA re history of Faculty of Medicine & historical sketch are found in Archives file #21.2.1(2)
Artifacts #91: Plaque: “To the memory of “J.D.” Clinician and Teacher. James Douglas Adamson 1890-1964. Professor of Medicine 1939-1950. Dedicated by the Class of 1941.
The Archives holds many prints that are ex libris JD Adamson Folder 2:
Adamson, JD: "Medical History Writing": 2 copies; 2nd copy amended in minor ways by JP Gemmell dated Sept 1954 (18pp+14pp)
"Total and Permanent Disability in Canada", signed copy (6pp)
"Leonardo da Vinci" attributed to JD Adamson (18pp)
Reprint of “Inaugural address” 1930 by JDA (pp10-14) incl JA Gunn’s Armistice Day & D Mainland’s Valedictory) (1 booklet of 16pp)
Physical Examination of the Respiratory Tract (27pp)
MPC 1.0#2A,B ; MPC 4.3#21 A ;
MPC 4.6#1 (12 glass slides used in Adamson’s Hist of Med lectures-in Archives slide file
The Nichoals Rioch anthonisen files contains the following materials: Folder 1
CV (includes publications list) (22pp)
Distinguished professor UM Bull 20(18):14 1986 (1p)
Announcement as Dean of Medicine, card with picture, also in UM Bull 22(20):1988, UM News Release 15 June 1988; Man Med v58(2) 1988; WFP (??) 1988 (6pp)
Notice of election to Royal Society of Canada UM Bull 23(5):10, 30 May 1989 (1p)
Canada’s contribution to respiratory physiology & pathophysiology Can Respir J v14(7):383-392 Oct 2007 (5pp)
Anthonisen receives honor for service to society UM Bull c29(5) 29 June 1995 (missing 2008)
"...butting out is the best way to curb chronic lung diseases" Bull v28(13) 1 Dec 1994 (1p) See also:
Files 17.3.5a/b MMA Award winners files for biography Folder 2:
Other misc notes from talks given at: (25pp total)
BSc(MEd): nd (2pp); 1992 (4pp); 1993(3pp); 1994 (4pp); 1995 (4pp)
New Faculty: (5pp)
Research Day: (3pp)
MPC 1.0 #5 A-
See also: 17.3.5a/b MMA Award winners files for biography
The John Buchanan Armstrong file contains the following material:
Obit CMAJ 29 Feb 2001 v164:607 (1p)
Newspaper clipping re Markle Foundation grant c1952 incl photo (1p)
Newspaper picture with nurse and patient (1p)
9 letters (J Doupe & JBA) re offer of a position at Univ Man, 1948-49, (13pp)
CV c1951 (2pp)
Corres with Markle Foundation, incl letter nominating JBA for a Markle Scholarship 1951-56 (incl CV, financial statement) (15pp)
Letters with Univ Alberta re position as Chairman of Physiology, 1955 2pp)
Letters to Markle Foundation notifying them that JBA had become Executive Secretary to Can Heart Fdn & to Defence Research Board re-arranging grant responsibility, incl Monthly Budget Statement 1956 (3pp)
2 miscellaneous letters re cardiovascular research, 1957 (2pp)