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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Letter of the Day: April 14

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 09429

War Department,
Office of the Surgeon General,
Army Medical Museum and Library,
Washington.

April 14, 1906.

To the Surgeon General,
U.S. Army.

Sir:

I have the honor to request authority to purchase for deposit in the Army Medical Museum the following busts of Medical and other Scientific men:

Aesculapius, est cost...$5.00
Agassiz""...5.00
Darwin, Chas""...5.00
Galen""...7.00
Huxley""...7.50
Holmes, Oliver W. est. cost 8.00
Linnaeus, est. cost...5.00

to be paid for from the Museum appropriation.

Very respectfully,
C.L. Heizmann
Col. Asst. Surgeon General, U.S.A.
In charge of Museum & Library Division.