We've finished two more rounds of digitization, completing our second Digital Conversion MicroGrant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). Now available are the Society of the Lying-In Hospital Annual Reports, 1951-1965; the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Announcements, 1989-1996, 1999-2000, 2002-2003, 2005-2007; the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center Annual Reports, 1990-1997; and the Cornell University Medical College Announcements, 1985-1993.

The Heberden Society and the Division of Medical Ethics jointly present:

Paul A. Lombardo, PhD, JD

Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law

'The Craze for Legal Proceedings': Schloendorff v. New York Hospital, 1914

Thursday, April 10, 2014 5:00 p.m. (light refreshments at 4:45pm)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

We've completed another round of digitization, this time focusing on two historic hospitals that played key roles in providing maternal health services in New York City.

Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, MPH DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, WCMC Institute for the History of Psychiatry, will present the Heberden society lecture onWednesday, February 26, 2014, at 5:00 pm.

Inventing the Veterans Administration, Who, How and Why? 1921-1924

Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (Light refreshments at 4:45)

Uris Faculty Room (A-126)

Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue

We've completed the digitization of the annual reports of two more antecedent institutions of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center that are now

From the polar vortex, to Arctic blasts, to thundersnow, New York City weather has given most of us some meteorological firsts in the last few years. Though the study of such phenomena dates back to ancient India (circa 500 AD), the formation of weather observation networks that systematically collected weather data was not established until 1654 in Italy.

The personal papers of Dr. David D.

As the Archives will be closed Monday, January 20, 2014 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we want to remember the life and contributions of Cornell University graduate Jerome Heartwood "Brud" Holland, PhD.

"P-04929" The photograph shows the Manhattan Maternity and Dispensary building which was located at 327 E. 60th Street, between First and Second Avenues.

Two archival collections documenting Hospital Auxiliaries at New York Hospital (now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center) and at the former Lying-In Hospit