| Description Of Item | These were originally in an envelope labelled 'Speeches etc'. Includes an article 'A Man of Parts' on Heriot Row and Abercromby [Abercrombie] Place, Edinburgh, Scotland; 'Principals I have Known' on John Watson's College with speeches given at a meeting of the Association; notes for an article on 18 Charlotte Square; speech to fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1968; speech to the AGM of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Association, 1967; farewell to Dr and Mrs Pester, 1968; speech as President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society; speech on the initiation of a fund for the erection of a Post-Graduate School at Surgeon's Hall as a memorial to Lord [Joseph] Lister; 'Reflections on Medical Education and Other Matters'; speech on the opening of the Davidson Clinic's new premises; speech possibly to the Pharmaceutical Society in which he commends the History of Pharmacy Committee, 1968; speeches to the Aesculapians, 1957-1967; list of presidents of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh 1821-1937; medical report on admissions to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c1930; synopses of papers given at the BMA [British Medical Association]/CMA Joint Annual Scientific Meeting including Alexander's on notable members of the Royal Medical Society, 1959; article on ophthalmology by H M Traquair with a letter from him to Alexander and Alexander's notes on notable members of the Royal Medical Society, 1943; speech at the retiral of Eleanor Hamilton from the Royal Infirmary, 1970; speech to the Blood Transfusion centre, 1962, 1968; versions of speeches given on the occasion of the visit of Queen Elizabeth; speech in support of William Clayson as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1966; speech to welcome the High Commissioner for India Mrs Vijaya Pandit, c1961; speeches to the Royal Medical Society, 1965 with article on some notable members; speech to the Library Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1959; speech on the end of his term as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1955; letter from Harry Sinderson, 1954; speech as convenor of the committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh to consider the future of 8 Queen Street; memoir of Alexander's student days; foreword to a history of the Davidson Clinic; Scottish Society of the History of Medicine chronology of the Armstrongs; speech to the Harveian Society; letter from Clarence House declining honorary membership of the Edinburgh Caithness Association, 1956; and a speech to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh. |