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Collection Number: 00837

Collection Title: William de Berniere MacNider Papers, 1905-1962

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Size 27.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 25000 items)
Abstract William de Berniere MacNider MacNider received an M. D. from the University of North Carolina in 1903. He was named Kenan Professor of Pharmacology at UNC in 1905 and Kenan Research Professor of Pharmacology in 1920. He served as Dean of the UNC Medical School from 1937 to 1940 and held numerous lecture and research appointments at universities and hospitals in the mid-Atlantic region. The collection is chiefly correspondence, personal and professional, of William de Berniere MacNider with friends, relatives, students, and colleagues, relating to his work and the research of others, medical organizations, the University of North Carolina, and local affairs in Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina materials include discussions of University consolidation, athletics, honorary degrees, faculty activities, the University library, and the medical and public health schools. Also included are manuscript volumes, lecture notes, and laboratory notebooks.
Creator MacNider, William de Berniere, 1881-1951.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the William de Berniere MacNider Papers #837, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from William de Berniere MacNider and Sallie Foard Shadrack of Chapel Hill and Wilmington, N.C., in 1947 and 1953, with additions from the North Carolina Collection and the Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1983, and from the Walter Reece Berryhill Papers (#4174) in 1987.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom and Winifred Fordham, February 1987

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, November 2006

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William de Berniere MacNider was born in Chapel Hill, N.C., 25 June 1881, the son of Virginius St. Clair and Sophia Beatty Mallett MacNider. In 1918, he married Sarah Foard, with whom he had a daughter, also named Sarah (Sallie) Foard.

MacNider received an M. D. from the University of North Carolina in 1903. He was named Kenan Professor of Pharmacology at UNC in 1905 and Kenan Research Professor of Pharmacology in 1920. He served as Dean of the UNC Medical School from 1937 to 1940 and held numerous lecture and research appointments at universities and hospitals in the mid-Atlantic region.

MacNider was an active member of many professional organizations and a frequent contributor to medical and biological journals. He died 31 May 1951.

(Source: Who's Who in America, 1950-1951.)

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The papers of University of North Carolina Medical School dean and professor of pharmacology Walter de Berniere MacNider consist chiefly of correspondence, personal and professional, of MacNider (1881-1951) and his friends, relatives, students, and colleagues, relating to his work and the research of others, to the University of North Carolina, and to local affairs in Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina materials include discussions of University consolidation, athletics, honorary degrees, faculty activities, the University library, and the medical school and the public health school. Family correspondence (1931-1950) appears as Series 1.2. Series 2 includes manuscript volumes, lecture notes, and laboratory notebooks.

The official records of MacNider's tenure as dean of the University of North Carolina Medical School are not included in this collection.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. General Correspondence, 1905-1951.

About 245000 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Personal and professional correspondence between MacNider and his friends, students, and colleagues. Topics range from discussions of MacNider's own work and the work of others in scientific research to subjects of a more personal nature. They refer also to local affairs in Chapel Hill and to issues relating to the University of North Carolina, including the consolidation of the three colleges, athletics, honorary degrees, faculty activities, the University library, and the Medical and Public Health schools.

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About 700 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence of a personal nature among MacNider and members of his family.

Folder 857-870

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13 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Manuscript volumes of lecture and laboratory notes, all of which are in folders. Also included are reprints of several of MacNider's journal articles and speeches, and a separate volume of birthday greetings received by MacNider in 1925.

Folder 871

Volume 1: Notes on Materia Medica, Volume 1, 1901

Handwritten notes by MacNider

Folder 872

Volume 2: Notes on Materia Medica, Volume 2, 1901

Handwritten notes by MacNider

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Volume 3: Pharmacology, 1906

Handwritten notes by MacNider

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Volume 4: Pharmacodynamics, 1910

Handwritten laboratory notes

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Volume 5: Pharmacodynamics, 1910

Handwritten laboratory notes by MacNider's student James William Farrior

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Volume 6: Process of Aging: Observations Recorded in Publications 1910-1937

Typewritten

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Volume 7: The Pharmacodynamics of Drugs in Pathological States, 1918

Handwritten lecture notes

Folder 878

Volume 8: Lectures in Pharmacology, 1918

Typewritten notes taken by MacNider's student R. B. McKnight

Folder 879

Volume 9: Pharmacology Laboratory Notebook, 1910s

Handwritten

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Volume 10: Laboratory Test Records, Volume 1, 1924-1943

Handwritten

Folder 881

Volume 11: Laboratory Test Records, Volume 2, 1927-1935

Handwritten

Folder 882a

Volume 12a: Abstracts on Aging, 1942

Typewritten

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Volume 12b: Abstracts on Aging, 1942

Typewritten

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Volume 13: Reprints of Journal Articles, 1928-1950

Printed

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Birthday greetings to Walter de Berniere MacNider, 1925

Printed

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31 items.

Photographs of MacNider, his friends and colleagues, and various buildings on the campus of the University of North Carolina.

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William de Bernierer MacNider, circa 1939

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Walter Reece Berryhill (1900-1979), undated

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John B. Graham, undated

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Henry A. Christian (1876-1951): Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass., 19 December 1925,

Photograph by L. G. Hermann, Boston

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Henry A. Christian: Boston, June 1921

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V. Korenschevsky: Oxford, England, 12 February 1946

Photograph by Wakefields, Ealing West London

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Charles W. Tillett (1888-1952), undated

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E. M. K. Geiling, undated

Photograph by Bachrach, Baltimore, Md.

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E. M. K. Geiling and John J. Abel (1857-1938), undated

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Richard Harry Whitehead (1865-1916), undated

Photograph by Cole and Holladay, Durham, N.C.

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Enlargement of P-827/10

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Thomas W. Harris (1839-1888), undated

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Charles Staples Mangum (1870-1939), undated

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Issac Hall Manning (1866-1946), undated

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Englargement of P-827/14

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Robert Ervin Coker (1876-1967), circa 1938

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Members of the National Academy of Science, Chapel Hill, N.C., October 1938

Identified in Chapel Hill Weekley, 26 October 1938

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Members of the National Academy of Science, possibly Chapel Hill, N.C., circa 1938

Photograph by Fred S. Howard Photographic Service, Falmouth Heights, Maine

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Harvey William Cushing (1869-1929), undated

Photograph of portrait by John Bryant, 1924

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Isaac Hall Manning, undated

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Adam T. Thorp (b. 1893), undated

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UNC Baseball Team, 1894

UNC-UVA game held at Greensboro. Players include: Fletcher H. Bailey (b. 1876), catcher; Harris T. Collier (b. 1876), pitcher; Theodore Garnett, UVA, at bat (photograph by George Stephens)

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Person Hall, 1920s

Photograph by Wootten-Moulton

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Caldwell Hall, 1950s

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MacNider Hall, 1952

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Medical Comples, circa 1962

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A journal article, a dose book, a letter, a short biography of Graham Lusk, a speech, and two notebooks relating to the medical career of William de Berniere MacNider. The article was written by MacNider, and the dose book and notebooks may have been used by MacNider as teaching aides. The letter, dated 1 April 1926, is to MacNider from A. B. Macallum. The speech may be by MacNider; it was delivered to the North Carolina Medical College in Charlotte, N.C., in 1906. The biography of Lusk has a note on the cover written by MacNider.

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Letter

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