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1. Carl Koller papers, 1866-1988

   2,100 items. 6 containers plus 1 oversize and 1 vault container. 4.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Ophthalmologist and surgeon. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, reports, laboratory notes, subject files, biographical material, certificates, awards, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Koller's career.

2. Charles W. Hack papers, circa 1800-1926

   15 items. 1 container. .2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer and surgeon. Mainly a journal of Hack’s medical service in the United States Army in the Philippines, 1901-1903, two manuscripts, portions of the Koran, in Arabic, and one Arabic-script manuscript in Maranao, a native Philippine language from Mindanao, an excerpt from the epic “Darangen.”

3. G.R.B. Horner papers, 1826-1911

   4,900 items. 14 containers. 5.0 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval surgeon and author. Correspondence, daybooks, medical journals, manuscripts of Horner's published books, registers of weather, and printed matter, chiefly relating to Horner's career as a naval surgeon.

4. Frank Hastings Hamilton papers, 1863-1887

   200 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Physician, surgeon, educator and author. Mainly scrapbooks of correspondence, telegrams, military documents, photographs and clippings relating to Hamilton’s medical career in the Union Army during the Civil War and his role in the treatment of James A. Garfield before his death by assassination in 1881.

5. Ninian Pinkney papers, 1822-1913

   900 items. 3 containers. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval surgeon. Correspondence, speeches, articles, and notes relating mainly to Pinkney's surgical cases in Peru, his observations on the Mexican War and Civil War, his plan to reorganize the Army Medical Corps, and his interest in politics.

6. Albert James Myer papers, 1851-1933

   300 items. 2 containers. .8 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer and surgeon. Correspondence, biographical material, and printed matter relating in part to Myer's service as a surgeon in the army and his role in the founding and development of the Signal Corps, including during the Civil War.

7. Albert James Myer papers, 1816-1880

   4 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer and surgeon. Microfilm focusing on Myer's service in the Signal Corps and documentation of his work in meteorology, including correspondence, biographical material, letterbooks, diaries, reports, memoranda, legal and business papers, and printed matter. Also contains papers of his father-in-law, Ebenezer Walden, and material relating to a patent by his father, Henry Beekman Myer, for the railway sleeping car.

8. Leonard Wood papers, 1825-1942

   85,000 items. 295 containers plus 9 oversize. 134.3 linear feet. 25 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Army officer, surgeon, and diplomat. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, military papers, subject files, biographical data, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Wood’s career in the United States Army, including his participation in the Apache Wars, especially the campaign to capture Geronimo. Also documents Wood's service as military governor of Cuba, and later, of Moro Province, Philippines.

9. Edward Maynard papers, 1836-1867

   110 items. 1 container. 0.4 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Dental surgeon and inventor. Correspondence, legal records, and financial account books relating to Maynard's improvements in the manufacture and sale of firearms and documenting his dental practice in Washington, D.C.

10. Edgar Alexander Mearns papers, 1864-1918

    5,850 items. 18 containers plus 3 oversize. 8.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Naturalist and U.S. Army surgeon. Correspondence, reports, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material chiefly relating to Mearns's activities as a collector of data on animal and plant life, on his participation in the Smithsonian African Expedition of 1909, and his duties and assignments as an army surgeon.

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