| Description | Contents: manuscript index
Letter to his sons, Robert Morton Douglas and Alexander Stuart Douglas, explaining why he has compiled the book, 5 July 1945
School photograph from Dallas School including Robert Douglas; photographs of James Simpson, Peter Smith, and Peter Dow, his teacher and sometime session clerk of Elgin.
Manuscript autobiography from birth: early memories; comments on his parents; biographical notes on his first teacher, Jessie Cameron Macpherson, 1853 - 1929; biographical notes on next teacher, James Grant, b.1864; James Simpson, b.1844, his headmaster at Dallas; Robert Simpson, his successor; Peter Smith, 1856 - 1935, his successor; Peter Dow, his successor, 1854 - 1921 (with notes on his children); Andrew Izatt, 1860 - 1942, his successor; his fellow pupils, George Brander, George Menzies, John Menzies, James Grant Philip, James MacKenzie, John Hardie, Robert Skene, Annie Robertson, Helen Ann MacKenzie, Isabella Robertson, Helen Macdonald, Janet Stewart, Jessie Cruickshanks, Frank Macphail, Andrew Sutherland, James Cameron, and Jane Findlay.
Cutting from The Press and Journal, 3 April, 1946, with obituary of Dr. George Smith, Milltimber.
Account of time at Elgin Academy; details of two teachers, John MacKenzie, 1852 - 1916, and Edward Kerr, d.c.1930; some details of fellow pupils, Miss Bruce, Miss Bowie, Miss Reid, Norris Mackay, Patrick Dunlop, Willie Dunlop, John Grant Jones, George Denoon, Alexander Brodie Fraser, and Arthur Hay.
Cutting from newspaper showing photograph of Lord Huntly at the opening of Gordon Barracks, Bridge of Don.
Account of time at Aberdeen University, 1889 - 1893: details of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Chancellor, d.1903; details of Viscount George Joachim Goschen, Rector, 1887 - 1890; Marquis of Huntly, Rector, 1890 - 1899; Sir William Duguid Geddes, Principal, 1885 - 1900; John Harrower, Professor of Greek; John Fyfe, Professor of Moral Philosophy; William Minto, Professor of Logic and English Literature; Charles Niven, Professor of Natural Philosophy; Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Humanity; George Pirie, Professor of Mathematics; Henry Alleyn Nicholson, Professor of Natural History; John Macdonald, assistant to the Professor of Mathematics; Alexander Ogg, assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy; Robert Easton, assistant to the Professor of Humanity; John Hay Lobban, assistant to the Professor of Logic and English Literature; John Wight Duff, assistant to the Professor of Greek; the sacrists John Colvin and Charles Henry Dankester; Robert Walker, secretary to the University; Thomas Francis Jamieson, lecturer in Agriculture; Dr. Joseph Ogilvie, who taught Douglas the art and practice of teaching.
Class fellows at Aberdeen: William Alexander; Edward Erskine Anderson; James S. Anderson; George Andrew; Henry Barron; Alfred Alexander Black; William Black; James Alexander Boyes (cutting from the Press and Journal of photograph of reunion in the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, including E. Rennet, Prof. J.C. Philip, W.G. Campbell, B. Skinner, Rev. A.W. Watt, J. Reid, J.C. Stuart, Dr. Bruce, Major W. Alexander, John Mackay, and Sheriff Mitchell); Robert Bruce; Alexander Calder; William Green Campbell; Robert Kilgour Catto; Alexander Charles; James Campbell Chrystie; Alexander Clark; William Hay Cranna; Janes Crombie; Charles Burr Cruickshank; William Lewis Howe Cruickshank; Thomas R. Davidson; George Denoon; James Donald; Robert Douglas; George Drummond; John Robertson Duncan; Robert Sangster Duncan; David Hutcheon Duthie (with newscutting photograph); Hector Gray Duthie; James Henderson Duthie; James Skene Duthie; Joseph Firth; James Wilson Fordyce; Andrew R. Forrest; George Topham Forrest (with newscutting photograph); Alexander Brodie Fraser (with newscutting photograph); William Garden Fraser (with newscutting photograph); William Garvie; George Watt Gibb; William Lindsay Gordon; Hugh Gunn; Alexander James Hay; John G.F. Moodie Heddle; William Elmslie Henderson; James Innes; Andrew W. Kennedy; Alexander Ledingham; Charles Leys (with newscutting photograph); James Cameron McHardy; John Mackay (with newscutting photograph); John Mackenzie; W.D.A. Mackenzie; Alister James MacKessack; James Macintosh; John McLaren; James McLean (with newscutting photograph); Kenneth Macleod; Malcolm Macleod; Roderick Macleod; John Ross Macmahon; John Grant McPherson (with newscutting photograph); Ian Macquarrie; Alexander William Mair (with newscutting photograph); George Milne; Thomas Arthur Stewart Milne (with photograph); George Mitchell; William Mitchell; Alexander Moir (with newscutting photograph); David Roger Moir; James Robertson Morrison; James St.Clair McIvor Mowat; John Watson Murray; Thomas Murray; Robert Murison; Alexander Neil; Nathan Fearnside Nichol; Walter A. Ogston; George Frank Petrie; James Charles Philip (with newscutting photograph); Joseph Pozzi; John R. McQ. Presslie; James Alexander Rae; Alexander Reid; John Reid; Ernest Rennet; Macdonald Frey Ritchie; Alexander Kirkland Robb; Robert Boyd Robson; John Roger; John Alexander Rose; William F. Sarell; William Sim; Benjamin Skinner (with newscutting photograph); George Baird Sleigh; Alexander Smart; George Smith; William Mitchell Smith; Alexander Souter (with newscutting photograph); George Irvine Thompson Stewart; Robert Harvey Strachan (with newscutting photograph); James Stuart; John Charles Stuart; Arthur Leslie Sutherland; John Emslie Taylor; Francis Souter Tennon; Joseph Traill; Francis W. Campbell Turreff; Alexander Urquhart; Alexander Urquhart; John Lamb Walker; Alexander William Watt (with newscutting photograph); Alexander Whincup; David Keith Whyte; David Donald Whyte; James Strachan Wilson; Alexander Wood; William Carlyle Wilson; William Cruickshank.
Statistics of the class: numbers in different fields of employment.
University honours gained by the class; bursary competition results, 1889 - 1890.
List of those who have died, with dates of birth and death and age where known.
Newscutting (Press and Journal) photograph of those at reunion dinner in the Caledonian Hotel: Ernest Rennet, W.G. Campbell, Robert Murison, Prof. I.C. Philip, Rev. W.A. Watt, John Mackay, Dr. Robert Bruce, Francis Teunon, Dr. Robert Douglas, B. Skinner, James McLean, John Stuart, Major William Alexander, Rev. William Garvie, and John Reid.
Magazine photograph (with copy) of those at class reunion, 16 September 1947: John C. Stuart, John Mackay, Colonel Bruce, Ernest Rennet, Dr. R. Douglas, James Maclean, W.L.H. Cruickshank, Prof. Souter, William Black, A.W. Watt, Dr. G.B. Sleigh, and F.S. Tennon, with addresses or at least towns written on. Also photograph of the same men in King's College Chapel.
Account of his time at Glasgow University: details of John Caird, principal; details of Lord Kelvin, Professor of Physics (with newscutting photograph); Magnus Maclean, lecturer to medical students in physics; Frederick Orpen Bower, Professor of Botany; John Ferguson, Professor of Chemistry; John Young, Professor of Natural History; James Ranken, assistant to the Professor of Natural History; John Cleland, Professor of Anatomy; John Yule Mackay, lecturer in anatomy; James F. Gemmill, lecturer in anatomy; Archibald Adam Warden, lecturer in anatomy; Alexander Macphail, senior demonstrator in anatomy; Alexander Macgregor Buchanan, Professor of Anatomy at Anderson College; John Gray McKendrick, Professor of Physiology; William Snodgrass and David Fraser Harris, his assistants; Matthew Charteris, Professor of Materia Medica; William Maclennan, his assistant; Pierce Adolphus Simpson, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence; Hugh Galt, assistant; Joseph Coats, Professor of Pathology; Sir William Macewen, Professor of Surgery (with pencil portrait); Sir William Tennant Gairdner, Professor of the Practice of Medicine; Murdoch Cameron, Professor of Midwifery; the hospital teachers George Buchanan, Alexander Patterson, Sir Hector Cameron, Gavin Paterson Tennant, Samson Gemmell, Sir Thomas Anderson McCall, James Finlayson, Robert Barclay Ness, Alexander Wilson Russell, Robert McNeil Buchanan, David Yellowlees, Alexander Johnstone, Robert Henry Parry, Robert Stevenson Thomson.
Key to class photograph, 5th. Year Medicals, Glasgow University, 1898.
Notes on medical classfellows: Joseph Wilkie Scott; Robert Lunan; Andrew Taylor; James Fulton Findlay; James Patterson Wilson; Alfred Duncan McNair; James Baxter; Dugald MacKinley; Benjamin Bird; James Drummond; Alexander Dey Thompson; Frederick Richardson Stewart; Alfred George Stewart; John MacFarlane Sloan; William Wallace Keir; Francis Stevenson; William Stewart Stalker; Robert Speirs Fullerton; James Blakely Miller; Robert Niven; Binnie Dunlop; Henry Nisbet Turner; William Leslie Bennett; Thomas Morton Strang; William Gardner Neill; John Aitken; John Shaw; Percival Leslie Pearce; Alexander Garrow; W.H. Steele; Charles Edward Cortis Stanford; Alexander Meathson; Frederick Ernest Stokes; James Bannerman; John Wilson Leitch; Alexander McCulloch; George Alexander; Robert Douglas; Harold Smith Heap; Arthur James Ballantyne; Ernest Wardlaw Milne; James A. Mitchell; John Donald Currie; James Garden Green; Roderick Reid Macnicol; William Gibson; Comyn MacGregor Findlay; Alexander Henderson Cassells; Andrew Aitken Barclay; John Henderson; Robert Fisher Ballantyne; John Donald; William Webster; John Crow; Robert Andrew Hannan Watson; John Brunton; Peter Donald Strachan; Archibald Armitage Jubb; Kenneth Mackenzie Duncan; John James Buchan; David Sloan Harvey; Percival Ambler Mitchell; William Fullerton Macewan.
Classmates 'not included in the Class Group Photograph but were I think studying along with me at least for part of the course and are claimed as fellow students': Ranald Douglas Campbell; David Curr Douglas; Isaac MacKay Huey; A. James Thompson Swann; Donald Sage Sutherland; John Laird Simpson; Edward William Reese Jones.
Statistics of the class: numbers in various medical fields; additional degrees or diplomas; honours.
List of those known or believed to be dead by 1947.
Account of his time at St. Andrews University (Dundee): reasons for studying for a Diploma in Public Health; mention of Professor James Walker, Chemistry, and Professor L.R. Sutherland, Bacteriology; Dr. Charles Templeman; Dr. Charles Oliver Hawthorne (connexion with Dundee unknown: tutored Douglas at the Royal Waterloo Hospital, London).
Account of Arts Class Reunions, 1889 - 1893, 1913, 1919, 1922.
Note of publication of 'Records of the Arts Class 1889 - 1893' by A.W. Mair.
Account of Arts Class Reunions, 1889 - 1893, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1947 (with poem by A.W. Watt).
Details of James Thomas Charles Nash, to whom Douglas was assistant for some time in public health work.
Inserted at back: sheet of well-used blotting paper; compliments slip from Henry Munro, Ltd., Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial, Union Row, Aberdeen.
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