H.C. Yarrow Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MS C 103

Abstract

Personal letters chiefly from Army medical officers. Correspondents include J.H. Baxter, John S. Billings, James Carroll, C.H. Crane, J.M. Cuyler, John Eagen, Robert Fletcher, Charles R. Greenleaf, Charles L. Heizmann, Bernard J. D. Irwin, George A. Otis, J. Simpson, George M. Sternberg, and J.J. Woodward.

Dates

Creation: 1863-1906

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Yarrow, H. C. (Henry Crecy), 1840-1929 (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

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Biographical Note

Born in Philadelphia, Yarrow completed his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1861. He joined the 5th Pennsylvania cavalry as an assistant surgeon during the Civil War. After the war he accompanied Lt. Wheeler's expedition exploring territory west of the 100th meridian. Yarrow became an instructor at the Columbian University's school of medicine and curator of the Department of Reptiles at the United States National Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1879, Henry Yarrow reported to Surgeon John Shaw Billings as an assistant on the Medical Index Catalogue project. He remained at this post nearly ten years, reading proof and preparing manuscript for the monumental catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.

He wrote Study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians (1881).