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Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
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Gift of Dr. Peter Ernst 2011
Includes research, notes and drafts for a biography of Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-
1941) by Dr. George William Ross (d.1948), friend and colleague of Banting. Ross’
father was the fifth Premier of Ontario from 1899-1905, Sir George William Ross (1841-
1914). Dr. G.W. Ross lost both his sons in World War II. The bulk of the material covers
the 1920s to 1941, the year of Banting’s death. Banting’s letters to his mother, medical
colleagues and others are included.
Inclusive dates 1918-1983.
Extent: 9 boxes and 1 item (2 metres)
Box 1
74 folders
Dr. G.W. Ross biography of Banting
Early insulin letters and notes, 1918-1922
Folder 1 F.G. Banting holograph notes [attributed
to] regarding WWI, 1918, 8 pages
Folder 2 Dr. G.W. Ross holograph notes on Banting
and military service, 1919
Folder 3 1920 manuscript notes on verso
Folder 4 Typed copies of TL to Banting from
Clarence L. Starr, December 14, 1920
Folder 5 Typescript notes on insulin by
Dr. Moses Barron
November 1920
Folder 6 ‘Research Work and Teaching by Sir
Frederick G. Banting’ by Frederick R.
Miller, 1920 typescript
Folder 7 Dr. Ross holograph notes 1921
On early life/beginning of experiment notes
Folder 8 Dr. Ross holograph notes 1921
‘Onset of Diabetes’
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Folders 9-15 Ross holograph notes on insulin 1921
Folder 16 Clarence L. Starr to F.G. Banting
May 3, 1921
2 typed copies
Folder 17 J.J.R. Macleod to F.G. Banting
March 11, 1921
2 typed copies
Folder 18 J.J.R. Macleod to F.G. Banting
April 20, 1921
3 typed copies
Folder 19 Banting and Best to Macleod
August 9, 1921
Typed copy of holograph letter
Folder 20 Banting to Macleod
August 9, 1921
Draft typescript letter with holograph
revisions [by Ross?]
Folder 21 2 copies of typescript notes re: Banting’s
letter to Macleod about their discoveries
[ca. 1921]
Folder 22 Macleod to Banting
August 23, 1921
Typed copy
Folder 23 Typed copy of letter E. Robertson to
Banting re: approval to conduct
experiments, October 5, 1921
Folder 24 Typed copy of handwritten letter re:
causes, symptoms of diabetes, etc.
Folder 25 Typed copy of editorial in Canadian
Medical Association Journal
Sent to Banting by Macleod 1921
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Folder 26 Typed copy of proceedings
American Journal of Physiology
Vol. 58 & 59, December 1921
Folders 27-30 1922 holograph notes [Dr. Ross]
Folder 31 ‘Treatment’ [1922 Dr. Ross] holograph
notes
Folder 32 ‘Summary’ [1922 Dr. Ross] holograph
notes
Folder 33 Ross holograph notes from the American
Journal of Pathology
September 1922
Folder 34 ‘Tentative Sections’
Ross typescript 1922
Folder 35 ‘Dates’ Ross holograph notes 1922
Folder 36 Ross holograph notes 1922
Folder 37 ‘Diabetic Statistics’
holograph chart and notes, Ross 1922
Folder 38 ‘Macleod 1922’
holograph notes by Ross
Folder 39 Ross holograph notes for Banting
biography, 1922
Folder 40 Ross holograph notes 1922
Re: Patient Case File
Folder 41 Manuscript note re: purification methods
1922, Henderson
Folder 42 Typed copy of letter to Banting from
S.R.D. Hewitt, Department of Soldiers’
Civil Re-establishment, April 9, 1923
Folder 43 Typed copy of letter to Banting from
Hewitt, July 22, 1922
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Folder 44 Typed copy of letter to Banting from
Hewitt, February 22, 1923
Folder 45 Typed copy of letter to Banting from J.G.
Fitzgerald, Berkley, California, October 16,
1922
Folder 46 Typed copy of Banting diary entries with
holograph notes by Ross
November 24 and 29, 1922
Folder 47 ‘The Internal Secretion of the Pancreas’
typescript talk read before Academy of
Medicine by Banting and Best, February 7,
1922
Folder 48 Ross holograph notes on the internal
secretion of the pancreas
Folder 49 ‘The Internal Secretion of the Pancreas’
print copy
Folder 50 ‘Conclusions: Internal Secretions of
Pancreas’ typescript in Journal of
Laboratory and Clinical Medicine
February 1922
Folder 51 ‘Pancreatic Extracts in the Treatment of
Diabetes Mellitus’ Banting, Best, Collip,
W.R. Campbell and A.A. Fletcher, reprint
Folder 52 Typed copy of letter of job offer
F.A. Hartman to Banting, May 2, 1922
Folder 53 Typed copy Macleod to Dr. Samuel
Wolman, Baltimore
May 26, 1922
Folder 54 Ross holograph notes on Royal Society of
Canada, May 1922
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Folder 55 ‘Pancreatic Extracts’, Banting and Best,
reprint from Journal of Laboratory and
Clinical Medicine, Vol. VII, No. 8
May 1922
Folder 56 ‘Pancreatic Extract and Diabetes’
J.J.R. Macleod, 2 reprints, Canadian
Medical Association Journal
June 1922, inscribed ‘G.W. Ross, Toronto’
and ‘By J.J.R. Macleod’
Folder 57 Dr. Arthur G. Bennett to Dr. Ross
Long ALS 6/8/1922
Folder 58 ‘The Effect of Pancreatic Extract (Insulin)
on Normal Rabbits’ Banting, Best, Collip,
Macleod and Noble, reprint from American
Journal of Physiology, Vol. 62, No. 1
September 1922
Folder 59 Typed copy of letters Macleod to Banting
August 1, 1922
Folder 60 Re-typed Toronto Star article re: world
attention on diabetes research, September
6, 1922
Folder 61 Re-typed Toronto Star article, 2 versions,
September 7, 1922
Folder 62 Typed copy of letter Albert Gooderham to
Banting, September 16, 1922
Folder 63 Typed copy of letter [Banting?] to Macleod
September 27, 1922, re: funding, staff and
equipment needs
Folder 64 Typed copy of letter with reply and
holograph revisions by Ross: Allen to
Banting, October 12, 1922
Folder 65 Typed copy of letter, A.L. Walters [Lilly]
to Banting, October 24, 1922
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Folder 66 Typed copy of paper by Macleod on large
scale insulin preparation, 1922
Folder 67 Typed copy of letter, Banting to Macleod
November 10, 1922
Folder 68 Typed copy of minutes of meeting of
clinicians at Toronto, November 23-25,
1922
Folder 69 Reprint ‘The Effect of Insulin on
Experimental Hyperglycemia in Rabbits,’
Banting, Best, Collip, Macleod, Noble, in
American Journal of Physiology
Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1922
Folder 70 Typed copy of Dr. Louis P. Hamburger’s
discussion of Banting’s paper on insulin
treatment
Folder 71 Typed copy of Frederic M. Cheever
[patient] letter to Banting, December 19,
1922
Folder 72 Typed copy of lecture, ‘Pancreatic Extract
in Diabetes Mellitus’ delivered by Banting
at the New York Academy of Medicine
December 21, 1922
Folder 73 Typed copy of ‘Side Lights on Medicine of
the Dark Ages’, ca. 1922
Folder 74 Typed p. 24 ‘1922’ of unknown document
re: account of discovery
Box 2
79 folders
Dr. G.W. Ross biography of Banting
material
Discovery of insulin material
Folder 1 Typed copy of ‘Memorandum on the
Establishment of a Diabetic Clinical in the
Toronto General Hospital’, 1922
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Folder 2 ‘Observations on Cerebellar Stimulations’,
Miller, Banting, reprint from Brain, Part 1,
Vol. 45, 1922
Folder 3 ‘Document “B” – Rescue of the Discovery
of Insulin by Dr. F.G. Banting’ typed
Folder 4 Typed partial account of discovery and
insulin work – Banting
Folder 5 Typed partial draft of Ross biography
Folder 6 ‘Addenda No. 1 to long article’ typed for
Ross biography
Folder 7 Holograph notes Ross made from
Canadian Medical Association Journal,
August 1923
Folders 8-10 Holograph notes Ross 1923
Folder 11 Ross holograph notes: research questions to
follow up
Folder 12 Ross holograph notes ‘Scrapbook No. 4’
Folder 13 Ross holograph notes ‘Scrapbook II’
Folder 14 Ross holograph notes – ‘Banting Honours
1922-3’
Folder 15 Typed copy of letter, Moses Barron to
Banting, February 14, 1923
Folder 16 Duncan Graham to Mr. Justice Duncan
Ross, TLS, March 9, 1923
Folder 17 Charles Evans Hughes to Ross
TLS
March 19, 1923
Folder 18 Banting to Ross
ALS
June 23, 1923
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Folder 19 Charles Best to Banting
ALS, June 28, 1923
photocopy of letter re: annuity awarded to
Banting only
Folder 20 Banting to Ross
ALS
July 15 [1923]
Folder 21 Typed copy of letters from W.W. Banting
on Banting ancestry
November and December 1923, January
1924
Folder 22 Ross holograph notes
Folder 23 Typed article copy, ‘Further Clinical
Experiences with Insulin’, Banting,
Campbell, Fletcher, 1923
Folder 24 ‘Further Clinical Experiences with Insulin’
Reprint from British Medical Journal
January 6, 1923
Folder 25 Typed paper for The Toronto Academy of
Medicine
January 9, 1923
Folder 26 ‘Still His Mother’s Boy Despite Honours
and Glory’
typescript, January 18, 1923
Folder 27 Newspaper clippings re: diabetes/insulin
Folder 28 Typed copy of letter to Robert Falconer
from Banting and reply
January 27, 1923 and January 29, 1923
Folder 29 Typed copy of letter Richard M. Lester to
Banting, parents of diabetic child
January 28, 1923
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Folder 30 Clipping [from Hansard?] February 27,
1923
Folder 31 Ross to Mackenzie King
TLS and carbon
March 13, 1923
Folder 32 Ross to Dr. R.T. Woodyatt
March 14, 1923
Carbon TL
Folder 33 Charles Evans Hughes to Banting
TLS and TL, March 16, 1923
Typed copy of letter to Mackenzie King re:
Banting stipend
Folder 34 Frederick Allen to Ross
TLS
March 19, 1923
And typed copies
Folder 35 Russell M. Wilder, Mayo Clinic
TLS and typed copy
March 19, 1923
Folder 36 Elliott P. Joslin to Ross
Carbon TL
March 21, 1923
Folder 37 R.T. Woodyatt to Ross
2 carbon TL
March 21, 1923
Folder 38 John R. Williams to Ross
TLS
March 21, 1923
Folder 39 Charles E. Stewart to Ross
TLS and 3 carbon TL
March 23, 1923
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Folder 40 Thomas Gibson to G.W. Ross ‘Billy’
TLS
March 20, 1923
TLS copy Gibson to Arthur Meighen
March 20, 1923
Folder 41 Thomas Gibson to Ross
TLS
March 24, 1923
Arthur Meighen to Gibson
TL copy
March 22, 1923
Folder 42 ‘Diabetes Mellitus and Insulin’
Duncan Graham
Reprint University of Toronto Bulletin
April 1923
Folder 43 R.J. Manion to Thomas Gibson
TLS
April 14, 1923
Folder 44 Typed copy letter Sgt. Henri S. Beland to
R.J. Manion, April 1, 1923
Folder 45 ‘Insulin in the Treatment of Severe
Diabetes’, A. McPhedan and Banting
reprint, International Clinics, Vol. II,
Series 33
Folder 46 ‘Insulin in the Treatment of Severe
Diabetes’ in Atlantic City, May 1, 1923
typed copy
Folder 47 Typed copy with Ross holograph notes re:
‘An Act of Ontario’, May 8, 1923
to provide annual grant to Banting
Folder 48 Typed carbon to Mackenzie King, sent to
Dr. Ross, May 8, 1923
Folder 49 TLS from Private Secretary to Mackenzie
King, June 7, 1923, to G.W. Ross and
carbon telegram Ross to King, June 5, 1923
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Folder 50 ‘Clearing the Skies for the Sugar-Poisoned,
By Woods Hutchinson’ in Saturday
Evening Post, June 9, 1923
Folder 51 Banting to Ross, ALS
June 23, 1923
Folder 52 2 carbon TL, Ross to Mackenzie King
June 25, 1923
Folder 53 Carbon TL Ross to Banting
June 26, 1923
Folder 54 Typed copy of ‘Marconigram’
June 27, 1923, to Banting announcing his
government annuity from Ross, Hipwell,
Mackay and Rogers
Folder 55 Typed pages from Hansard, June 27, 1923
p. 1430 re: Banting
Folder 56 TLS from Mackenzie King’s private
secretary to Ross, June 28, 1923
Folder 57 Reprint from Canadian Journal of
Medicine and Surgery, June 1923
Re: University of Toronto, Toronto
General Hospital and Committee to the
House
Folder 58 Typed copy of letter Ross to Dr. Herbert A.
Bruce, July 10, 1923
Folder 59 Typed copy of letter Ross to Banting
July 10, 1923
Folder 60 Typed account with carbon Banting’s
opening of Exhibition
Folder 61 Typed carbon of letter Ross to Dr. Elliott P.
Joslin, July 23, 1923
Re: Banting’s annuity
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Folder 62 TLS Dr. R.T. Woodyatt to Ross
August 20, 1923, re: Banting annuity
Folder 63 Long TLS Ross to Sir Arthur Keith
September 18, 1923
Folder 64 Typed copy of letter G.H.A. Clowes to
Banting, September 19, 1923
Folder 65 Typed copy of unpublished lecture by
Banting, October 31, 1923
Possibly given at Canadian Club and
Chamber of Commerce
Folder 66 Copy of ‘Method of preparation of Insulin,
1923’
Folder 67 Typed list of names on Banting stationery
Folder 68 Typed copy of course on insulin treatment
of diabetes mellitus
Folder 69 2 typed copies of Academy of Medicine
resolution on discovery of insulin
Folder 70 Typescript ‘The Internal Secretion of the
Pancreas’
Folder 71 Typescript Banting, ‘The Value of Insulin
in the Treatment of Diabetes’
Folder 72 ‘Report of Special Committee …
Organization and Administration of the
University of Toronto’ 1923 marked
‘personal copy’
Folder 73 ‘Bill, An Act to provide for an Annual
Grant to the University of Toronto for the
promotion of Medical Research’
No. 200, 1923
Folder 74 Reprint ‘The Story of Insulin’
Dr. Edwin E. Slosson in World’s Work
November 1923
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Folder 75 Reprint ‘The Preparation of Insulin’
C.H. Best and D.A. Scott
Folder 76 British Medical Journal clipping
July 21, 1923
Folder 77 Reprint Canadian Medical Association
Journal,’Insulin: Its Action: Its Therapeutic
Value in Diabetes, and its Manufacture’
Insulin Committee
Folder 78 Reprint Canadian Medical Association
Journal, August 1923
‘Observations with Insulin on Department
of Soldiers’ Re-establishment Diabetics’
Gilchrist, Best, Banting
Folder 79 ‘Dr. Banting Insurance to Endow
Foundation’ in Toronto Daily Star
September 1, 1923
Box 3
65 folders
Insulin material 1924-1934
Various insulin related
Banting speeches, various correspondence
Folder 1 1924 typed and holograph notes biography
Folder 2 3 typed versions of unpublished address by
Banting – an address given at The
University of Indiana
Folder 3 Reprint ‘Insulin’ by Banting, 1924, in
International Clinics, Vol. IV, Series 34
Folder 4 ALS Best to Ross, July 30, 1925
Folder 5 Typed address by Banting to Stratford
Alumni Association Dinner
January 27, 1925
Folder 6 Reprint ‘Medical Research’ by Banting in
Annals of Clinical Medicine, Vol. III, No.
9, March 1925, typed and print
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Folder 7 Typed copy of letter, William Mulock to F.
Lorne Hutchison
Folder 8 Typed copy of letter, Banting to Collip
June 30, 1925
Folder 9 Typed copy of letter Collip to Banting
July 7, 1925
Folder 10 ‘The Still, Sad Music of Humanity’
print appeal for funds for Banting Research
Foundation
Folder 11 2 typed copies of Letters Patent
July 22, 1925
Re: Banting Research Foundation
Folder 12 Typed copy of address to Life Assurance
Officer’s Lunch, November 20, 1925
‘Medical Research’
Folder 13 Typed copy By-Laws, The Banting
Research Foundation
Folder 14 ‘Blood and Urine Findings in
Desuprarenalized Dogs’, G.H.W. Lucas
reprint American Journal of Physiology
Vol. 77, No. 1
Folder 15 TLS F. Lorne Hutchison, Banting Research
Foundation to Ross
February 23, 1926
Folder 16 TLS and enclosures, F. Lorne Hutchison
To Ross, May 13, 1926
Folder 17 TLS Carl Snyder, Walker Dishwasher
Corp. to Ross
May 26, 1926, advising investment in
dishwashers
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Folder 18 Carbon typescript copy of ‘Medical
Research’, Banting address given to
Canadian Medical Association, Victoria
June 1926
Folder 19 ‘Medical Research’, Banting, reprint from
Canadian Medical Association Journal
XVI, June 1926
Folder 20 3 typed copies, Toronto, J.C. Neale
July 1, 1927
Folder 21 ALS Banting to his mother
February 13, 1928
Folder 22 Typed and holograph [Ross]
Notes on insulin discovery
Folders 23-25 Manuscript notes, ‘Extracts from the
Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus’ By Elliott
P. Joslin, 1928
Folder 26 ‘The History of Insulin’, Banting
reprint from Edinburgh Medical Journal
January 1929
Folder 27 ‘The History of Insulin’ inscribed to Dr.
G.W. Ross by Banting
Folder 28 ‘The History of Insulin’ inscribed to
Master Bill Ross by Banting
Folder 29 ‘The History of Insulin’ inscribed to
Master Duncan Ross by Banting
Folder 30 Ross holograph notes on history of insulin
Folder 31 Ross typed notes, 1929
Folder 32 Typed copy of letter, J.G. Fitzgerald to
Falconer, with reply, December 20, 1929
Re: plaque to mark discovery of insulin in
Medical Building, U. of T.
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Folders 33-35 Ross holograph notes 1930
Folder 36 Typed copy letter Banting to Mitchell
August 7, 1930
Re: machine gun
Folder 37 Typed copies of letters to/from Banting and
Sir William Mulock, 1930
Re: wording of plaque
Folder 38 Typed copy of letter Banting to Best
February 5, 1930
Re: wording of plaque
Folder 39 Typed copy of letter W. Mulock to Banting
February 17, 1930, re: plaque
Folder 40 Typed copy of letter Banting to Best
February 20, 1930, re: plaque
Folder 41 Typed copy of letter F.A. Mouré to J.G.
Fitzgerald
March 28, 1930
Folder 42 ‘The Antitryptic Properties of Blood
Serum’, Banting and Gairns, reprint
July 1930
Folder 43 2 programmes, Formal Opening of
Banting Institute and Special Convocation
September 16, 1930
Folder 44 TLS and enclosure, Dr. D.E. Robertson to
Ross, re: Banting’s appendix
September 24, 1930
Folder 45 ‘A Record of Proceedings at the opening of
the Banting Institute, U. of T.’, 1938
Folder 46 Ross holograph notes for biography 1931
Folder 47 ‘I Ask You Men of Business Two
Questions’, Dr. Harry Emeson Fosdick in
The World Over, January 24, 1931 article
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Folder 48 ‘Research’ Banting speech delivered at
Faculty Meeting at OAC Guelph
February 7, 1931
Folder 49 ‘Indian Medicine’
typescript of Banting talk to Medical
Historical Meeting
February 20, 1931
Folder 50 Clipping in Toronto Star Weekly, ‘Dr.
Banting’, June 27, 1931
Folder 51 TLS and enclosures on Pathogen Selective
test, Secretary to Banting
November 18, 1931
Folder 52 ‘A Study of the Enzymes of Stools in
Intestinal Intoxication’, Banting, Gairns,
Lang and Ross, reprint 1931
Folder 53 ‘On the Colorimetric Estimation of Silica’
Earl J. King, reprint 1931
Folder 54 Ross holograph notes 1932
Folder 55 ‘A Method for the Micro Gravimetric
Determination of Silica in Tissue’
J.C. Magen and Earl J. King
March 1932 reprint
Folder 56 ‘Medical Research’ Banting address to the
67th convocation of SUNY Albany, New
York, October 15, 1931
Folder 57 ‘Medical Research’ reprint from New York
State Journal of Medicine
March 15, 1932
Folder 58 ‘CXXXII, The Biochemistry of Silicic
Acid, IV. Relation of Silica to the Growth
of Phytoplankton’, Earl Judson King and
Vida Davidson
May 30, 1933, reprint
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Folder 59 ‘The Silicosis Problem’ Banting
typescript, Royal Society, May 1933
Folder 60 ‘Contents of Sir Frederick’s Book
Presented to him by the Members of his
Department, on his Return from Europe,
Christmas 1933’ typescript notes
Folder 61 ‘Immediate and Ultimate Effects of Silica
in the Rabbit’, Gordon C. Cameron and
Jessie Lang, presented by Banting
reprint 1933
Folder 62 ‘Electrical Precipitation of Silica Dust’
W.R. Franks and F.L. Harrison, presented
by Banting, 1933 reprint
Folder 63 TLS Henry A. Christian to G.W. Ross
September 20, 1934
Folder 64 Typed copy of letter with Ross’ holograph
notes
Banting to G.H.A. Clowes
November 13, 1934
Folder 65 ‘Resistance to Rous Sarcoma’
Banting and Gairns
Reprint 1934, 2 copies
Box 4
57 folders
Banting biography drafts
Insulin material, 1934-1938
Reprints
Banting letters to his mother, 1930s
Banting letters to ‘Billy’ [G.W. Ross]
Folder 1 ‘The Histological Demonstration of
Siliceous Material by Microincineration’
Dudley A. Irwin, reprint 1934
Folder 2 Copy of awards received by Banting
Typescript
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Folder 3 Typed copy of letter, H.G. Cody, President
University of Toronto to Banting
June 4, 1934
Folder 4 Banting record of service with The
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Department of National Defence
August 1, 1934
Folder 5 Holograph and typescript notes
Folder 6 Clipping re: Black Watch
Folder 7 TL G.H.A. Clowes to Banting
September 25, 1934
Folder 8 ‘A Study of Serum of Chickens Resistant
to Rous Sarcoma’, Banting and Gairns
reprint November 1934
Folder 9 ‘Experimental Silicosis: Quartz, Sericite
and Irritating Cases’, Robson, Irwin, King
1934, reprint
Folder 10 ‘The Phagocytosis of Silica by Surviving
Leucocytes’, Franks and Watt
reprint, 1934
Folder 11 ‘Treatment of Diabetes’ by Elliott P. Joslin
typescript and holograph notes by Ross,
1934
Folder 12 ‘Russia’ Ross holograph notes and clipping
Folders 13-14 Ross holograph notes
Folder 15 ‘Silicosis’, Banting 1934 reprint
Folder 16 H.G. Wells clipping
Folder 17 Typed copy letter H.C. Nixon to Banting
May 2, 1935, re: Silver Jubilee medal
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Folder 18 ‘The Site of Formation of the Phosphatase
of Serum’, Armstrong and Banting
1935 reprint
Folder 19 ‘The Experimental and Pathological
Aspects of Silicosis’, Dudley Irwin
1935, reprint
Folder 20 ‘The Cellular Reaction to Silica’
Fallon and Banting, 1935 reprint
Folder 21 ‘Tissue Reaction to Sericite’ Fallon and
Banting, 1935 reprint
Folder 22 ‘Effect of Repeated and Prolonged
Stimulation of the Vagus Nerve in the Dog’
Ettinger, Hall, Banting, 1935 reprint
Folder 23 ‘An Experimental Production of Coronary
Thrombosis and Myocordial Failure’
Hall, Ettinger, Banting, 1936 reprint
Folder 24 University of Toronto Report of the Dean
of the Faculty of Medicine, 1936-37
Folders 25-27 Ross holograph notes
Folder 28 Ross typescript notes
Folder 29 ALS Banting to his mother
December 26, 1937
Folder 30 Clipping re: Silicosis
October 7, 1944
Folder 31 ‘The Prevention of Silicosis by Metallic
Aluminum’, Denny, Robson, Irwin, 1937
Folder 32 ‘Vagus Stimulation of the Production of
Myocordial Damage’ Manning, Hall,
Banting, 1937
Folder 33 ‘Specific Tissue Reaction to
Phospholipids…’ Fallon, 1937
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Folder 34 Typed list of Banting reprints, 1922-1937
Folders 35-39 Ross holograph biography draft and notes
Folders 40-44 Ross holograph biography 1937
Folder 45 ALS Banting to his mother
February 20, 1938
Folder 46 ALS Banting to his mother
January 30, 1938
Folder 47 ALS Banting to his mother
Re: Denton Massey, R.B. Bennett and
others, May 26, 1938
Folder 48 Long ALS Banting to Billy [Ross]
Re: concerns about Institute and insulin
patents, February 9, 1938
Folder 49 Manuscript copy of Banting letter with
Ross holograph notes
February 9, 1938
Folder 50 Draft ALS Banting to ?
February 19, [1938] with Ross holograph
notes
Folder 51 Long draft ALS
Banting to Billy
February 23, 1938, with Ross holograph
notes
Folder 52 ALS Banting to Billy
March 3, 1938
Ross holograph notes
Folder 53 ALS Banting to Billy
April 2, 1938
Ross holograph notes
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Folder 54 ALS Banting to Billy
July 14, 1938
Ross holograph notes
Folder 55 ALS Banting to Billy
September 23, 1938
Ross holograph notes
Folder 56 ALS Banting to Billy
October 10, 1938
Ross holograph notes
Folder 57 ALS Banting to Billy
December 17, 1938
Ross holograph notes
Box 5
59 folders
Insulin and Banting biography
1938-1941
Banting letters to Billy
1939
Banting letters to his mother
1939
death of Banting, 1941 -
Folder 1 ‘Notes on the Place of Medical Research in
a Medical School’ Banting, typescript
Folder 2 Typescript notes on Banting, Best
publications
Folders 3-4 Offprint on silicosis
Folder 5 Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin November
1938
Folder 6 1938-39 annual report of Dean of Faculty
of Medicine
Folders 7-9 Holograph biography draft 1939
Folder 10 ALS Banting to Billy
January 14, 1939
Ross holograph notes
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Folder 11 Long ALS Banting to Billy
January 22, 1939
Ross holograph notes
Folder 12 ALS Banting to Billy
January 29, 1939
Ross holograph notes
Folder 13 ALS Banting to Billy
February 10, 1939
Ross holograph notes
Folder 14 ALS Banting to Billy
February 14, 1939
Ross holograph notes
Folder 15 ALS Banting to Billy
March 1, 1939
Ross holograph notes
Folder 16 ALS Banting to Billy
April 30, 1939
Ross holograph notes
Folder 17 ALS Banting to his mother
January 29, 1939
Folder 18 ALS Banting to his mother
February 26, 1939
Folder 19 ALS Banting to his mother
Re: visit of Lawren Harris, etc.
May 14, 1939
Folder 20 ALS Banting to his mother
Re: visit of King and Queen
May 21, 1939
Folder 21 TLS Banting to his mother
September 24, 1939
Folder 22 ALS Banting to his mother
October 1, 1939
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Folder 23 ALS Banting to his mother
January 22, 1939
Folder 24 TLS Banting to his mother
October 20, 1939
Folder 25 ALS Banting to his mother
November 25, 1939, London
Folder 26 ‘Resistance to Experimental Cancer’
Banting, January 1939 reprint
Folder 27 ‘The Preservation of Silicosis by Metallic
Aluminum’ Denny, Robson, Irwin
1939 reprint
Folder 28 ‘Studies on the Solubility of Quartz and
Silicates’ Lucas & Dolan, 1939 reprint
Folder 29 Manuscript Banting bibliography 1927-
Folders 30-32 Ross holograph biography draft 1940
Folder 33 ALS Banting to his mother
March 10, 1940
Folders 34-35 Typescript notes 1940
Folder 36 ‘Let’s Face the Facts’ No. 10
Matthew H. Halton
September 22, 1940
Folder 37 1940-41 Annual report of the Dean of
Medicine
Folder 38 Manuscript quotation from Banting letter
January 28, 1941
Folder 39 Clippings, envelope, fragment – 1941
Folder 40 ‘In Memoriam – Sir Frederick Grant
Banting’ in The University of Toronto
Medical Journal
April 1941
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
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Folder 41 Long TLS, ‘Blevs’ to Duncan
July 15, 1941, re: Banting
Folder 42 TLS Marie Tremaine to G.W. Ross
October 16, 1941
Folders 43-45 Holograph draft re: death of Banting
Folder 46 Ts copy of cablegram from General
McNaughton
February 28, 1941, re: death of Banting
Folder 47 Various typescript copies of address at
Banting’s funeral by University of Toronto
President, Henry John Cody
March 4, 1941
Folder 48 Copies of published address at Banting’s
funeral in The University of Toronto
Monthly, March 1941
Folder 49 Clippings re: Banting memorial service
Alliston, March 1941
Folder 50 Typescript copies of Sir Henry Dale’s
Tribute to Banting, March 8, 1941
Folder 51 3 typescript drafts
American Journal of Psychiatry comment
March 1941
Folder 52 Banting obituaries
Folder 53 Typescript Banting obituary, by George
Hunter
Canadian Medical Association Journal
April 1941
Folder 54 Banting obituary by classmate J. W.
Reddick for The Canadian Medical
Association Journal
April 1941
Typescript drafts
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 55 ‘Frederick Grant Banting, Discoverer of
Insulin’, May 1941
2 typescript drafts
Folder 56 ‘Sir F. G. Banting – An Appreciation’
typescript by Earl J. King, and TL
May 5, 1941
Folder 57 Secretary to University of Toronto
president, H.J. Cody to G.W. Ross
TLS May 7, 1941
Re: patents
Folder 58 Faculty of Medicine resolution
Typescript copies
Folder 59 University of Toronto Monthly
May 1941, 2 copies
Box 6
35 folders
Re: 1941 death of Banting
Banting biography drafts
Folder 1 J.B. Collip appreciation of Banting in the
May 1941 Scientific Monthly
Folder 2 Typescript of Collip appreciation of
Banting
Folder 3 Typescript copies of American Diabetes
Association presidential address by Dr.
Cecil Striker
June 1, 1941
Folder 4 Beaumont S. Cornell to G.W. Ross re:
Banting
2 TLS
June 3 and July 15, 1941
Folder 5 H.J. Cody to G.W. Ross re: Banting
July 24, 1941
2 TLS
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
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Folder 6 Banting’s medical school grades, U. of T.
1912 and 1916
Folder 7 List of university appointments held by
Banting and Best, from Academy of
Medicine 1941
Folder 8 Paul Krabe to G.W. Ross
TLS
August 26, 1941
Folder 9 Canadian Medical Association to Ross
Re: Banting biography
TLS
September 2, 1941
Folder 10 Velyen Henderson to Ross
Re: Banting Research Foundation
TLS
September 17, 1941
Folder 11 Oliver & Boyd Publishers to Ross
Re: Banting
TLS
October 2, 1941
Folder 12 Ross to Thompson
TLS draft
October 13, 1941
Folder 13 Department of National Defence
Banting Record of Service with the
Canadian Expeditionary Force
October 17, 1941
Folder 14 Daring Strategy and Courage
Navy League of Canada [1941]
Folder 15 Holograph notes Ross
Possible letter draft
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 16 Oliver & Boyd Publishers Ltd. to Ross re:
Dr. Andrew Robertson Cameron
TLS
December 23, 1941
Folder 17 Ross typescript references and notes re:
Banting
Folder 18 Typescript notes and print on death of
Banting
Folder 19 ‘Sir Frederick Banting’
by J.E. Middleton in Saturday Night and
Ladies Home Journal
typescripts of poem about Banting
Folder 20 In Memoriam, Sir Frederick Banting
April 1941 typescript
Folder 21 ‘The First Annual Banting Memorial
Lecture – 1941’, abstract E.P. Joslin
typescript
Folder 22 In Memoriam, Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Print tributes by the National Research
Council of Canada
Folder 23 ‘In Memoriam Sir Frederick Grant
Banting’, typescript drafts
Folder 24 ‘Dr. Banting’s Contribution to Aviation
Medical Research’, typescript
Folder 25 Typescript pages, biography draft[?]
Folder 26 ‘In Remembrance’
typescript
Folders 27-35 Typescript drafts and notes for Ross’
Banting biography
Box 7
52 folders
Re: Banting
1942-1947
Banting biography
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 1 Thompson Banting [brother of F.G.
Banting] to G.W. Ross
ALS
February 21, 1942
Folder 2 Ross holograph note
Folder 3 Clipping: Lieutenant D.B. Ross missing
1942
Folder 4 Canadian Medical Association Journal
Volume 46, No. 1
January 1942
Folder 5 Typescript notes re: speech of Sir William
Mulock, Convocation Hall
February 20, 1942
Folder 6 C.J. MacKenzie, President National
Research Council to Ross
February 26, 1942
TLS
Folder 7 T.D. Cumberland to Ross
March 26, 1942
TLS
Folder 8 Report of the Dean of the Faculty of
Medicine, 1941-42
Folder 9 University of Toronto resolution honouring
Sir William Mulock, inscribed to G.W.
Ross, January 11, 1943
Folder 10 Dr. R.T. Woodyatt, Chicago
November 30, 1942
TLS
Folder 11 Colonel Wally James Brown
University of Western Ontario
November 30, 1942
TLS
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 12 W.P. Tew to Col. Brown
TL
November 30, 1942
Folder 13 George R. Minot
December 21, 1942
TLS
Folder 14 Louis I. Dublin
December 1, 1942
TLS
Folder 15 Col. W.J. Brown
December 2, 1942
TLS
Folder 16 Elizabeth Hughes-Gossett to Ross
December 8, 1942
Long ALS
Folder 17 ‘The Contribution of Sir Frederick Grant
Banting to Silicosis Research’ print
Folder 18 The Canadian Medical Association Journal
Vol. 47, No. 5
November 1942
Folder 19 Velyen E. Henderson to Ross
February 24, 1943
TLS
Folder 20 University of Toronto Monthly
Banting on cover
February 1943
Folder 21 ‘Frederick Grant Banting’ from Hygiea
June 1943
Typescript poem
Folder 22 Elliott P. Joslin
January 18, 1943
TLS
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 23 John R. Williams
January 23, 1943
TLS
Folder 24 Clipping New York World Telegram
1943
Folder 25 Typescript extracts from ‘The Diabetic’ by
Elliott P. Joslin
February 22, 1943
Folder 26 Holograph notes 1943
Folder 27 Russell M. Wilder, Mayo Clinic, to Ross
December 3, 1943
TLS
Folder 28 Typescript drafts re: Sir S.S. Frederick
Banting
Folder 29 The University of Toronto Its Work and
Needs print
Folder 30 E.R. Loveland
January 15, 1945
TLS
Folder 31 ‘Brief Report on the Banting Exhibition
held in Hart House, 12th February – 1st
March 1943’
Folder 32 Dorothy Blackadore, Aluminum Company
of Australia
November 16, 1945
TLS
Folder 33 Typescript address re: Banting
February 4, 1945
Folder 34 G.E. Hall
April 17, 1945
TLS
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 35 Dudley A. Irwin
Aluminum Company of America
April 17, 1945
TLS
Folder 36 T.C. Routley, Canadian Medical
Association
April 24, 1945
TLS
Folder 37 Dudley A. Irwin, Aluminum Company of
America
November 8, 1945
TLS
Folders 38-45 Typescript draft of Banting biography
Folders 46-48 Holograph draft of Banting biography 1946
Folder 49 W.A. Scott
May 6, 1946
TLS
Folder 50 Dr. W.D. Robson
May 20, 1946
TLS
Folder 51 Bulletin of the Academy of Medicine
Toronto, March 1947
Folder 52 Insulin and Diabetes – In Retrospect and in
Prospect, by C.H. Best, 1945 Banting
Memorial Lecture, offprint
Box 8
29 folders
Banting biography
Re: Banting
1983
miscellaneous
Folder 1 W.L. Tew to Dr. David Ernst
TLS
February 9, 1983
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
Coll. 1918-1983
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Folder 2 Banting biography material
Date unknown, clippings, ts notes
Folder 3 ‘My Dear Mither’
print poem
Folder 4 Mulock to Ross
ALS
n.d.
Folder 5 Alex Jackson to Ross
ALS
Folder 6 Typescript and holograph notes
Draft Banting biography
Folders 7-13 Typescript and holograph draft notes
Folder 14 Print re: Physicians Services Incorporated
Folder 15 Death notice re: Lieutenant Duncan Boston
Ross from the Minister of National
Defence
Folder 16 George R.I.
Buckingham Palace
Re: death of Duncan Ross
TLS
Folder 17 Velyen Henderson to Ross
ALS
Folder 18 Clippings
Folders 19-26 Typescript and holograph notes
Folder 27 Photographs
5 black and white photographs
2 colour photographs
Folder 28 Insulin executive summary 1922
Folder 29 Faculty of Medicine resolution noting
death of Banting
Ms. Dr. Peter Ernst collection of Dr. George William Ross papers
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Box 9
4 items in box
1. ‘Sir Frederick Banting tells about Soviet
Science’ in Soviet Russia Today
October 1935, Vol. 2, No. 24
2. Nutritional Charts: prepared for
medical, dental, and dietetic specialists by
the staff of the Research Department of
H.J. Heinz Company. 12th edition, July
1946. ‘D.S. Ernst’ inscribed on cover
3. Nutritional Charts: prepared expressly
for medical, dental, and dietetic specialists
by the staff of the Research Department of
H.J. Heinz Company. 9th edition.
September 1940. ‘D.S. Ernst’ inscribed on
cover
4. Sir George W. Ross: a biographical
study. Margaret Ross. Toronto: The
Ryerson Press, c1923. With bookplate of
Aelean Blevins