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Papers, 1873-1945, 1972-1974 (inclusive), 1881-1945 (bulk)

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Materials document Cannon's research and publications; involvement in professional societies and scientific organizations; administrative and committee work at the Harvard Medical School; activities on behalf of refugees and wartime medical work; other humanitarian interests; and his personal and family life. Extensive correspondence exists with academic friends, colleagues, and students at Harvard; physiologists, physicians, and scientists in the U.S. and other countries; personal friends and family, especially his wife, Cornelia James Cannon; and editors of professional journals and publishers. Other papers include diaries, scrapbooks and albums, lecture and laboratory notes, minutes of meetings and related organizational material. Addenda contains letters and papers from Cannon's student years, memorabilia, and other personal and biographical items. Supplementary materials were gathered by the Walter B. Cannon Research Project investigators to prepare a biography and include photoreproductions of correspondence with various people at other institutions, photographs, and copies of material from Harvard Medical School records.

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