The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Description of the Buildings: Addresses Delivered at the Opening of the Laboratories in New York City, May 11, 1906. E-book. Formato PDF Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The buildings are located on the eastern shore of Man hattan Island, at Sixty-sixth Street and Avenue A, and are situated upon a high, rocky bluff, fifty feet above tide water, overlooking on the one side the East River, and on the other side, the city to the west. From its favorable loca tion in the midst of a large free area of three city blocks and its proximity to the East River, the Institute has unoh structed light in all directions; and since it stands over 325 feet beyond the line of Avenue A, it enjoys a remarkable immunity from the noises and commotion of city traffic. The laboratory building, the dimensions of which are I 36 by 60 feet, faces west and consists of a basement, five full stories, and it carries upon the roof an independent structure for housing animals, to which are attached out of-door runs for the animals, suites of rooms for surgical Operations, and a room for post-mortem examinations.

Medicine in China. E-book. Formato PDF Rockefeller Foundation   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Chargé, Mr. Yung Kwai, who provided letters Of introduction to Chi nese Officials in Peking. The Chairman also met Mr. E. T. Williams, head of the Far Eastern Division in the Department of State, the Secretary of State of the United States and a number of other people who were interested in the Far East. The Chairman, Dr. Peabody, and the Secretary and the two ladies of the party sailed from New York on the hamburg-american Steamer Imperator, Saturday, March 21, 1914. From Cherbourg the party proceeded to Moscow, stopping a few days in several cities enroute. Leaving Moscow April 8, they arrived at Peking April 18. On the following day, April 19, the party was joined by Mr. Greene coming from Hankow. The first formal meeting of the Commission was held on April 20, at which time the general plans for work were outlined. Until May 11 the Commission remained in Peking, studying the situation there, and in Tientsin, examining the various medical schools and hospitals in that city, making the acquaintance of important Officials of the government, and organizing plans for the subsequent work in other parts of China. The Commission was received by the President of the Republic, Yuan Shih K'ai, was entertained at dinner by the vice-president, Li Yuan Hung, and was able to meet other important officials. Blanks were prepared and sent to hos pitals and medical schools to be returned to the Commission in order to secure from the workers on the field a statement of the facts Within their knowledge. Meanwhile, Mr. E. C. Sage, one Of the Secretaries of the General Education Board, had provided the Commission before it left New York with a large mass of reports as to medical work in China from various missionary bodies in the United States. Later Mr. Sage proceeded to England and Obtained similar material from the various mission bodies in that country.